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dns service provider.

Posted by Grimnar on Sun 30 Mar 2008 at 16:29

Tags: dns, questions

So my current free dns provider is telling me it`s time to find a new provider. Cause he is giving up providing. So now I`m on a quest to find a new provider. Google gives me a lot of help, but I still not sure what to use. I signed up with freedns.afraid.org to check out what they can do for free. But I still need some more input.
Anyone know of any good providers?
Does not have to be free, but as close to free as possible is good. I have a server at home wich I can use for secondary dns providing, but I suspect my ISP dont accept that:)
-Andreas.

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Re: dns service provider.

Posted by GhostR (80.128.xx.xx) on Sun 30 Mar 2008 at 18:23
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Once I had the same problem and I came across http://ns2exchange.com haven't tried it tough. I just didn't want to deal with public DNS, so I use my hosting companys NS. (plus right now the people on there all seem to run homeservers).
I'm sure you could find somebody on here who runs an DNS or rootserver, just supply secondary your self.
but if its for a homeserver, what I almost assume from your question, think about dyndns or similar.

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Posted by Grimnar (85.221.xx.xx) on Sun 30 Mar 2008 at 23:32
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It's really not for a homeserver, but not for a commercial site either.
But somewhere in between.
Great feedback. Got lots to check now!

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Posted by Anonymous (201.87.xx.xx) on Sun 30 Mar 2008 at 20:29

You can always run your own DNS server at home. I decided that when I got fed up with my ISP's crappy DNS servers and I just feel much more comfortable and secure running my own. There are a couple of articles at Debian Admin teaching how to do that. Creating one local DNS server with BIND is easy.

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Posted by rodaballo (213.73.xx.xx) on Sun 30 Mar 2008 at 20:38
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I use EveryDNS and it works great.

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Posted by Grimnar (85.221.xx.xx) on Sun 30 Mar 2008 at 23:38
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Yeah, this looked like something I could use. Thanks a lot.
But I need to read up on dns, cause this was all greek to me!

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Posted by Anonymous (2001:0xx:0xx:0xxx:0xxx:0xxx:xx) on Mon 31 Mar 2008 at 19:21

I am using http://gratisdns.dk/ and it works great too.
I do recommend them.

I only have my domain on their DNS servers.

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Posted by anurag (202.87.xx.xx) on Fri 11 Apr 2008 at 13:00
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hey, finally its good to see ipv6 users around!
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Anurag

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Posted by Anonymous (90.227.xx.xx) on Sat 12 Apr 2008 at 09:44

Not on my home site though. It's at work that I have IPv6.

Could someone with some knowled write down how to use IPv6 propperly (an own net)? (Hmm, I shold read up on IPV6, shouldn'y I? Any links? Hmm, should prob. do some more research :))

I have a LinkSys NSLU2 running Debian 24/7 and a LinkSys WRT54GL running Linux 2.4 OpenWRT KAMIKAZE (7.09)

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Posted by Anonymous (85.12.xx.xx) on Wed 2 Apr 2008 at 15:50

XName.org

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Posted by anurag (202.87.xx.xx) on Fri 11 Apr 2008 at 12:58
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Hey!
I've used EveryDNS too. Its easy to use and geographically redundant also!

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Anurag

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Posted by Grimnar (85.221.xx.xx) on Fri 11 Apr 2008 at 13:11
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