Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:33:21 -0800 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looking for a secondary. Message-ID: <20081217053321.GA569@ayn.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <20081217051959.GD11226@thought.org> References: <20081216234235.GA4593@thought.org> <104079537551833802407591023971219248307-Webmail@me.com> <4E4E9B506F504C4BB0C1713423F970CF@hermes> <20081217051959.GD11226@thought.org>
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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" >> ><kline@thought.org> 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
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