From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 6 17:19:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from riker.skynet.be (riker.skynet.be [195.238.3.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70E8C37B423 for ; Sun, 6 May 2001 17:19:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (dialup846.brussels2.skynet.be [194.78.238.14]) by riker.skynet.be (8.11.2/8.11.2/Skynet-OUT-2.11) with ESMTP id f470J1123534; Mon, 7 May 2001 02:19:02 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <15093.37891.477055.231085@guru.mired.org> References: <15093.37891.477055.231085@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 01:51:55 +0200 To: Mike Meyer , Rakhesh Sasidharan From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Hosting my own domain. Cc: freebsd-chat Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 1:12 PM -0500 5/6/01, Mike Meyer wrote: > You also need a second DNS server, preferable on a different network > than your first one. If you've got a cooperative ISP, they'll provide > that for you. The best setup I've seen is that they will add your > domain to their name server system, with your server listed as the > master. You list their servers as the name servers for the domain, and > thus avoid DNS lookup traffic over your link, except for the domain > transfer from their master. If you've got a fixed IP address assigned to you, I would suggest that you check out getting a free secondary nameserver via the Nominum GNS project -- these guys have a network of high-availability nameservers distributed around the world, and (last I looked) the entry level service is available at no charge. See for more information. IMO, this would be better than having your ISP set up as a secondary for your domain (if you need to change ISPs, you can just change the IP address that GNS/secondary.com pulls a copy of your zones from, and everything else automatically moves with you). Of course, the best solution of all would be to get both your ISP and GNS/secondary.com to be secondaries for your domain (you'll want to think about setting up reverse DNS, and your ISP may be suspicious if they work with you to do this but they aren't a secondary for your domain). -- Brad Knowles, /* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum */ /* Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody */ /* Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers */ /* */ /* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */ /* where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key */ dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message