From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 17 05:33:24 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B67911065676 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:33:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bill@ayn.mi.celestial.com) Received: from ayn.mi.celestial.com (hayek.celestial.com [192.136.111.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D1DC8FC1C for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:33:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bill@ayn.mi.celestial.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ayn.mi.celestial.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC414686147AA; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:33:21 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mi.celestial.com Received: from ayn.mi.celestial.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ayn.mi.celestial.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id txo47Rq4XR5k; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:33:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by ayn.mi.celestial.com (Postfix, from userid 203) id 8E473686147A5; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:33:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:33:21 -0800 From: Bill Campbell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20081217053321.GA569@ayn.mi.celestial.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20081216234235.GA4593@thought.org> <104079537551833802407591023971219248307-Webmail@me.com> <4E4E9B506F504C4BB0C1713423F970CF@hermes> <20081217051959.GD11226@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081217051959.GD11226@thought.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 OpenPKG/% (2008-05-17) Subject: Re: looking for a secondary. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@celestial.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:33:24 -0000 On Tue, Dec 16, 2008, Gary Kline wrote: >On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:20:59PM -0500, Matt Emmerton wrote: >> >On Tuesday, December 16, 2008, at 02:42PM, "Gary Kline" >> > wrote: >> >> >> >>i was recently informed that the firm that bought secondary.com is going >> >>to >> >>begin charging $100/mo. i nearly choked on that, but whatever... i'm >> >>looking for an *.org who does DNS secondaries free oe nearly so. i know >> >>there is at least one place, but it's been years. >> > >> >Not free, but nearly so: >> >http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/secdns/ >> > >> >$17.50/year = $1.46/month... >> >> Other options include: http://www.backupdns.com/index.html >> >> $0.80/month/zone for a small number of zones. >> >> Or http://www.zoneedit.com >> >> They will host DNS (primary and/or secondary) for 5 zones, free of charge >> (subject to bandwidth). >> > > > well, i've certainly asked more ignorant q's, so hrer goes: > what is a ``zone''? i do my own dns and have since 04/2001. > > thought.org is my one domain, altho i've got several virtual > websites. > > a number of people have offered to be my secondary, something that > warms me to the core. this happened once before--i needed a secondary > and had to scramble. like to take care of it before something > else happened! --i'm rambling, sorry. > > again, a Zone is? A zone file has all DNS records related to a domain. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. -- Robert Heinlein