Does anyone know of a good DNS service?

I like easydns.com, but I want to be able to host multiple domains from 1 account, I'm willing to spend around 50 bucks a year and I have about 25 domains. I like managing my own DNS so I can add subdomains as wanted for gameservers etc.

I like www.zoneedit.com its free for small use and amazingly cheap for large use.

I like it.

Man that service looks ancient, last updated in 99$.

I'm not so sure, the 5 domain thing is nice, but what about service and support?

Everydns.net works fine!

WOW!! MATT REPLIED AWESOME!!! K thanks.

You can host multiple domains off of everydns (name service for them), and their planned release of everybox is what I have been hoping for for a while. You can host something like 200 records without giving them a penny, and for $15 you can host unlimmited.

That's a great deal!

Why not just run your own name servers??

There's unlimited for ya.

Anyway, if you don't have your own server, then i guess that's too bad....

I would like to run my own DNS server however I would need a secondary DNS, so I might as well get the added reliabliity of a good primary DNS service.

You can't host primary and secondary DNS on same machine.

I would also have to learn bind.

Originally posted by Snoozy


You can't host primary and secondary DNS on same machine.



Yes you can :)

Originally posted by Snoozy
I would like to run my own DNS server however I would need a secondary DNS, so I might as well get the added reliabliity of a good primary DNS service.

You can't host primary and secondary DNS on same machine.

I would also have to learn bind.

No. You can run two name servers on one machine, most definately. Long as you have two differnt ips for it.

Also, just because i suggested to run your own NS doesn't mean you have to learn bind.

Try tinydns.

Ok, thanks I'll lookinto that!

try www.worldwidedns.net :)

everydns.net is really the best choice....they have a brand new version coming out soon with a ton of new features that no other service has also :) I actually use them for all my sites.

easydns.net doesn't work

easydns.com does.. are these same company?

I know Zoneedit.com is old but it works. Something better would be www.toz.com

My post vanished. :eek: I like ZoneEdit the best. It gives you the most control. I've tried HammerNode, but their TTL is set to 24 hours with no way to change it. GraniteCanyon is okay if you know what you're doing, but they take too long to update.

Originally posted by Snoozy
easydns.net doesn't work

easydns.com does.. are these same company?

EVERYdns.net

Originally posted by Snoozy
Man that service looks ancient, last updated in 99$.

I'm not so sure, the 5 domain thing is nice, but what about service and support?


Service and support has been very good. Even though their corporate offices were next to the WTC on Sept 11, their DNS ran fine throughout the entire situation.

Take a good look at zoneedit's network layout (http://www.zoneedit.com/doc/network.html?) and you'll see why. Five DNS servers distributed around the country, running different OS's and software on different backbones. Very diversified.

I use ns1.zoneedit.com and ns5.zoneedit.com. Do a traceroute to seee where they are located. Nicely separated, eh?

In the end, a solid DNS infrastructure matters far more than a pretty, updated web site.


(I haven't read this whole thread, so I hope I'm not repeating something that someone else has said.)

Hi all,

I'm wondering if any of these DNS servers will go down? I'm looking for those who can offer a SLA with 100% uptime.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks
Joe

How about,
Running DNS on two servers in different countried which update from each other.
This is how we do it, and we are adding 2 more shortly (Canada and one in my office!)
It costs nothing if you already have web servers operational and it makes a huge difference not having all your sites go down because of a fault on one machine or network.

Gordon

This isn't really a plug since my service is free...but to compare to zoneedit.

we have:

ns1 and ns2 in san diego california.
ns3 in the netherlands
ns4 in st. louis, MO.

we also have ns5 at hurricane electric in the bay area but it isn't up.

In the next couple weeks we will be moving ns1 to st. louis and keeping ns2 in san diego.

We have 100% uptime although I can't promise it. I can just say that since we've launched in June we have never had a full DNS outage. Our webserver has gone down once or twice, never for more then a couple hours and we have had issue with ns3 having old data for a couple hours but we've never had a DNS outage.

I think most people are pretty happy with our service. I wanted the new version to be done a long time ago but we have had some financial issues and schoolwork issues to deal with. I'm a sophomore in college and although I wish I could dedicate all day to everydns.net I can't. (thankfully it runs it self pretty much)

I get out of school at th end of april at which point I will be busting ass to finish the new version of everydns.net (called everybox.com)

thanks,
davidu

Sweet, thanks for the information.

I searched for a reliable and not expensive 2ndary DNS service provider to host my domain with a non limited subdomain feature that can be updated from a primary NS server and found easydns.com
I saw them big enough and thought this is the one.
Apart from that I saw WHT use their services.

However I learned from them that : "Retail services do have secondaryDNS available with a limit of 100 subhosts per domain. Browser timeouts can not be avoided when loading more then 100 subhosts.
This is why we set the limit at 100."

Does anyone knows any other service for the purpose I described above ?

Thanks
WebSeeker

I searched for a reliable and not expensive 2ndary DNS service provider to host my domain with a non limited subdomain feature that can be updated from a primary NS server and found easydns.com
I saw them big enough and thought this is the one.
Apart from that I saw WHT use their services.

However I learned from them that : "Retail services do have secondaryDNS available with a limit of 100 subhosts per domain. Browser timeouts can not be avoided when loading more then 100 subhosts.
This is why we set the limit at 100."

Does anyone knows any other service for the purpose I described above ?

Thanks
WebSeeker

we don't have such a limit and they are morons if they are blaming HTTP for not supporting more DNS records.


-davidu

Originally posted by DavidU
we don't have such a limit and they are morons if they are blaming HTTP for not supporting more DNS records.

David:

They may be referring to timeouts in the CLIENT'S browser when editing more than 100 subhosts. That would be an issue with the delivery of the GUI, not the operation of the DNS and it could very well be a logical reason for limiting the number to 100. Not elegant, but logical.

Steve

Originally posted by scslawin


David:

They may be referring to timeouts in the CLIENT'S browser when editing more than 100 subhosts. That would be an issue with the delivery of the GUI, not the operation of the DNS and it could very well be a logical reason for limiting the number to 100. Not elegant, but logical.

Steve

Steve, I'm sorry you didn't know what HTTP meant.

HTTP: HyperText Tranfer Protocol.

It is the protocol that the web pages you browse are most commonly served over. I think you just didn't comprehend my post.

No where did I say the operation of DNS was the issue. I said they were morons if they were blaming HTTP (like a timeout on a webpage) for limiting their DNS service.

Please read my post again and let me know where I was unclear or mistaken.

-davidu

Actually,
Thats what happens if you have zone file with lots of A records on a Cpanel server.
If you try and edit it through the GUI it times out.


Gordon

Originally posted by GordonH
Actually,
Thats what happens if you have zone file with lots of A records on a Cpanel server.
If you try and edit it through the GUI it times out.


Gordon

So then Cpanel should fix there ****. Still not DNS related.

all they would need to do is in their select or whatever they are doing,

limit($cur,30) and then have a next link with a limit($cur+30,30)

or whatever. really simple fix. but this isn't web tech support. :-)

-davidu