From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 17 15: 8:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2851B37B404 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:08:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA9E043E6A for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:08:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 784BA72FD1; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:06:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7551072FCC; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:06:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:06:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." Cc: Dave Rossow , Subject: Re: Verisign dns trick In-Reply-To: <03ad01c2752f$40637dd0$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> Message-ID: <20021017150438.I88254-100000@carver.gumbysoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > I've got most everything with www.dotster.com.... > > > Better? I dunno....works pretty well, 'cept > their 'update nameservers' script refuses > to acknowledge the existence of any DNS > machine you haven't explicity registered with > their site...and it sometimes takes a while for > the site to determine that the NS you entered > can be added to their database > This is true with all registrars -- its a bit of the ugly underbelly behind how data gets from the registrars to the live DNS servers. On the plus side, once the registration is in there you can change the IPs for the host entry and not have to update every single domain entry using that host. Of course, if you use a non-verisign aligned registrar, host adds and domain updates usually happen instantaneously so the registration burden is much less :) -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message