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Date:      Tue, 19 Aug 1997 17:29:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net>
To:        danny@panda.hilink.com.au (Daniel O'Callaghan)
Cc:        webmaster@Online-Site-Services.com, isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 2.2.2 DNS question
Message-ID:  <199708200029.RAA12490@Gatekeeper.Alameda.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970820090307.308n-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> from Daniel O'Callaghan at "Aug 20, 97 09:07:12 am"

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> On Tue, 19 Aug 1997 webmaster@Online-Site-Services.com wrote:
> 
> > Q: I have just discoverd that my carrier has decided not to do Secondary DNS
> > as promised.  Can I configure a single FreeBSD 2.2.2 DNS server to be
> > configured as two DNS machines as listed below?
> > 
> > Primary DNS:    ns1.domain.net  201.202.99.1
> > Secondary DNS:  ns2.domain.net  201.202.99.2
> > 
> > I know this is not a great idea, this would be a temporary setup until I
> > could get a second FreeBSD 2.2.2 DNS server built.
> 
> Bad, Bad, Bad.
> 
> What you *should* be asking is "Can anyone secondary my domains, please".
> For preference, you should use two secondaries where possible.
> I'll secondary domains for you if their use is not too high, but I pay 
> $0.19 per MB of traffic, so I have to be a little careful with what I 
> give away.  I won't secondary netscape.com or yahoo.com :-)
> 
> Danny
> 
> /*  Daniel O'Callaghan                                                     */
> /*  HiLink Internet <http://www.hilink.com.au/>;       danny@hilink.com.au  */
> /*  FreeBSD - works hard, plays hard...                 danny@freebsd.org  */
> 
> 
> 

I provide secondary DNS for people, mostly inclusive in some other package,
but in some cases also just the DNS. For low volume DNS I just do like
$15/year, mainly for setting it up.

-- 
Ulf.

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