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Date:  Sat, 5 Apr 2008 12:36:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:  mailing list <sunlist (at mark) yahoo.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:12479] Re: Secondary DNS exchange    (was: Re:  Re: Pointing Virtual Sites)
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <930512.63207.qm (at mark) web63803.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To:  <9435E4B1-D6AB-4396-810F-405DAA921E45 (at mark) stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
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--- Stroller <stroller (at mark) stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> On 4 Apr 2008, at 22:37, Greg Kuhnert wrote:
> > We've got a really good bunch of people here. Arthur has been  
> > around for a while, and I trust him. "lets do a reciprocal swap"  
> > for secondary DNS..... but I dont have enough time to do the config  
> > each time he adds a new domain....
> > ...
> > Or better still, two BQ servers talking to each other in a trust  
> > relationship - with the ability when you create  a primary dns to  
> > just "tick" the secondary DNS server from a list of options. The BQ  
> > interface then makes it all happen automagically! That'd be way cool.
> 
> Speaking as someone who did a reciprocal secondary swap with someone  
> from my distro's mailing-list, it sucks through a proverbial when the  
> guy disappears off the face of the earth. It transpired that this guy  
> had been a very active geek for several years before I encountered  
> him, written technical books &c, but one day he just let his domain  
> expire & vanished off the internet.
 
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> So from my experiences, I would recommend against DNS swaps. A single  
> server - and each participant in the pool is relying that of his  
> opposite number - is too fragile.

Perhaps opendns.com or similar services that provide free DNS and/or secondary
DNS?


Mike



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