From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 19 04:27:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A496B1065670 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:27:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from gsicomp.on.ca (gsicomp.on.ca [200.46.208.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EFBB8FC08 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:27:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.208.211]) by gsicomp.on.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D0AEFCA68E; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:11:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gsicomp.on.ca ([200.46.208.251]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.211]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 56273-03; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:10:51 -0400 (AST) Received: from hermes (CPE00062566c7bb-CM001ac3584898.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.255.62.215]) by gsicomp.on.ca (Postfix) with SMTP id 77696FCA677; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:11:08 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: From: "Matt Emmerton" To: , "Brett Glass" References: <200812190253.TAA04241@lariat.net> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:11:08 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:37:30 +0000 Cc: Subject: Re: Secondary DNS or BSD Server space X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:27:53 -0000 > Everyone: > > We just got word that Neustar, which bought DNS service provider > Nominum a few years ago, is shutting down Nominum's > "secondary.com" service. The service used to provide secondary DNS > for users' zones at no charge. > > I and the other secondary.com users I know think it's reasonable > for the company to charge a small but reasonable fee for the > service instead of keeping it running for free. But alas, Neustar > is getting greedy. The only alternative they offer is a $50-a-month > "managed DNS" service, which we don't want or need. (We're fine > maintaining our own master servers and zones; we just need a slave > to use as a secondary.) So, we're looking for alternatives. > > Does anyone on this list know of a good, BSD-based service which > offers reasonably priced secondary DNS? Or reasonably priced > servers at a server farm, where I and others can set up a secondary DNS > server? There was a thread on this just the other day here. Not sure if they are BSD-based, but both dyndns.org and zoneedit.com offser secondary service for practically nothing. -- Matt Emmerton