[tech] DNS backup NSes

[Samuel Cochran]

It might be worth approaching http://freedns.afraid.org/. They have a great
network and would probably sympathise with the club, perhaps donating a
backup service.

We may not even need their help:

http://freedns.afraid.org/secondary/instructions.php

I've been using them as the primary host for my personal domains for quite
some time.

Sam.


Samuel Cochran
sj26 at sj26.com, +61-415-441-909


On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:16 PM, David Adam <zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>wrote:

> I have taken dns.uwa.edu.au and dns1.uwa.edu.au out of the list of backup
> NSes for the UCC domain. They don't appear to be slaving the domain
> properly and it is playing havoc with various zone updates I am trying to
> complete.
>
> This just leaves us with ns2.bur.st as a backup DNS server. [MSH] has been
> wondering for a while if there's someone with an overseas node who might
> second our DNS for us; anyone have any ideas? We don't really need any
> more Australian-based hosts at this stage. Alternatively,
> http://zoneedit.com/ appears to have a mostly-free service.
>
> David Adam
> UCC Wheel Member
> zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
>
>
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