From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 24 21:07:11 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C058F106566B for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:07:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@yazzy.org) Received: from mail.yazzy.org (mail.yazzy.org [85.196.65.51]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F25A8FC14 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:07:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.yazzy.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC5FB2299B for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:07:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.99.50] (lantop [192.168.99.50]) by mail.yazzy.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8019224AB; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:07:00 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4B8594FD.30406@yazzy.org> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:07:09 +0100 From: "Marcin M. Jessa" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lenz References: <4B82F976.8020308@yazzy.org> <4B84E0B0.8070904@yazzy.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DSPAM-Result: Innocent X-DSPAM-Processed: Wed Feb 24 22:07:01 2010 X-DSPAM-Confidence: 0.5157 X-DSPAM-Improbability: 1 in 107 chance of being spam X-DSPAM-Probability: 0.0000 X-DSPAM-Signature: 1970,4b8594f52201087519608 X-DSPAM-Factors: 27, References*yazzy.org>, 0.00933, References*yazzy.org>, 0.00933, Date*Feb+#+22, 0.99000, never, 0.01000, money, 0.99000, record, 0.99000, I+#+#+it, 0.01000, >+#+#+and, 0.01000, well, 0.01000, update, 0.01000, a+#+#+#+money, 0.99000, changes, 0.01000, server, 0.01000, live, 0.99000, >+#+#+#+a, 0.01000, the+#+from, 0.99000, projects, 0.01000, to+give, 0.99000, Received*Feb+2010+22, 0.99000, Received*Feb+#+22, 0.99000, Subject*free, 0.99000, References*mail.gmail.com>, 0.01000, smallest, 0.99000, and+I+am, 0.01000, hosting, 0.01000, is+not, 0.01000, Date*09+0100, 0.99000 Cc: FreeBSD-ISP Subject: Re: Registrars with free DynDNS services of my own domains. X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:07:11 -0000 lenz wrote: > if i may ... don't > > you miss a very important point here. DNS is bitch when it comes to > caching and large providers. never mind what you have as expire times > many large providers cache for a day to reduce their DNS traffic. if > you run a NS server on a dynamic IP this can be more of a lottery than > a solution. dyndns works fairly well for stuff that can live with > small expire times and is not mission critical. a ns record _is_ > mission critical as without it not only your website is offline but > potentially your mail other stuff. > > You're right and I am aware of it. The stuff I am hosting is websites with open source projects of mine and mostly my private stuff. Nothing of critical importance. Pluss my master DNS has a static IP. If anything changes, DNS lookups can be always made against it. > in your case i would get a cheap vhost somewhere and run the second ns > there (slicehost, smallest slice or such) and have a stable solution > or use the DNS from your provider or any other DNS hoster that offers > an API if you want to update records. I thought of it but I am willing to give my solution a shot before spending money on something that I may not need.