[clue-tech] Granite Canyon DNS?

[William]

--- Jim Ockers wrote:
> If you register your domains through certain registrars they will 
> also provide DNS services for your domains at no extra charge, or 
> else a small extra charge.  Although I operate my own DNS servers 
> I use EasyDNS for domain registration and have found their customer 
> service to be very good, consistently.  www.easydns.com

I don't register the domains, I host for them.  Consequently, I have to manage the DNS myself and
I decided to run my own primary DNS server for convenience.  This is better than trying to work
with non-technical clients to try to either:
1) Get them to manage the DNS at their registrars themselves.
2) Give me their domain management logons, or set me up with a secondary account (which isn't
available everywhere, so this really isn't an option).

> As to the free secondary DNS provider question.  Why would I let you
> host an unlimited amount of domains on my DNS server, for which I
> had to pay, and which costs money to maintain and buy hard drives
> for, and for which I have to pay for bandwidth, but you can use it
> for free?

Because DNS management and traffic is trivial and this is the nature of some circles of developers
-- which you, apparently, aren't part of.  No insult intended, but don't be so close-minded.  :)

> Why are you complaining about the customer service of a free DNS
> provider anyway??  Maybe it's obvious to me and not to you, so I
> guess I have to ask why you expect them to provide you with
> timely customer service when you aren't paying them anything...

I'm not complaining about customer service; I'm reporting an outage and asking if anyone has found
a workaround.

> It is very likely that you WILL HAVE TO PAY something for the DNS
> service you want, even if it just means re-registering your domains
> through a different registrar that provides incidental DNS service.

I acknowledge that it may come to this, but I will first chase the free option since I'm not
making any money off my hosting service (which, in reality, I'm just doing for friends -- a LOT of
friends).


=====
William Kimball, Jr.
"Programming is an art form that fights back!"  =)


		
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