[BNM] DNS help

[Joe Aliferis]

thanks Felix

I will look into that option

Joe


Felix Cohen wrote:
> After problems with the DNS at our old hosting provider, we moved  
> over dyndns.com, who provide a fairly cheap ($25 p.a.) DNS management  
> system (with much better control and features than 123-reg, from what  
> I know); they'll even let you set the TTL (the amount of time your  
> record stays in a cache elsewhere) for your records if you are want  
> your DNS records to propagate further.
> 
> 
> Felix Cohen
> 
> Director of Technology
> www.openDemocracy.net
> 
> 
> 
> On 16 Oct 2007, at 17:43, Joe Aliferis wrote:
> 
>> thanks for that info
>>
>> Perhaps 123reg use a short timeout so that other DNS servers caches
>> require frequent updates...
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>
>>
>> Mark Ng wrote:
>>> On 16/10/2007, Joe Aliferis <joe at newforms.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> We understood that, although we used 123reg to manage DNS, we  
>>>> were not
>>>> dependant on the performance of their DNS servers, because of the  
>>>> nature
>>>>   of the way DNS propogates around the internet
>>> Whilst DNS propogates to local DNS servers, local DNS servers act as
>>> caches, not as authoritative sources.
>>>
>>> Whilst the nature of DNS means that not every request for your DNS
>>> records requires a trip to your DNS servers, the first request for  
>>> any
>>> particular DNS record from a single location (a single location being
>>> one set of people using the same local DNS server) and each time the
>>> cache become invalid due to timeouts does require your DNS server to
>>> be working and not busy.
>>>
>>> Incidentally, I use 123reg, and their mail server stopped working
>>> properly a couple of days ago.  I've also seen a sharp drop in the
>>> number of users accessing my personal website.
>>>
>>> Mark
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