[wplug] DNS Question

[Jason Carr]

I would suggest that you try something like www.everydns.net or
www.zoneedit.com.  They both have free DNS hosting that you're able to
modify via a web interface.

If you really want to run a name server, you can just run one at home,
you don't technically need two.  ns1.x.x and ns2.x.x can point to the
same address.  That's what I did a long time ago when I had a connection
that didn't block all ports under 1024.  Now, don't get me wrong here
this is incredibly stupid if you have "production" services, but for a
home connection and a personal domain you should be okay.

- Jason

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 02:38 -0400, Logan wrote:
> > But that seems like it should be problematic -- how could you have  
> > two different master domain name servers?  Which one does the user  
> > trust?
>  From the user's perspective, can they even see the master/slave  
> relationship? I thought all they got was ns1.yourdomain.tld and  
> ns2.yourdomain.tld
> 
> 
> > Is it still desirable to run one's own domain name server? Or  
> > should I just rely on joker's?  The only reason I don't like them  
> > is the long TTL (a full day).
> I run my own for the same reason. It's not hard, so I really don't  
> see a reason to not run it.
> 
> If they have different TTL's though, wouldn't running your own in  
> addition not really help? Someone makes a DNS request and might get  
> yours or Joker's - if they get Joker's then the TTL is set in your  
> cache and you don't see the update for a day anyhow. Am I right, or  
> getting this confused with DNS load-balancing using a round-robin  
> list of IP addresses?
> 
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