[Sysadmin] evolt.org DNS, where's the new primary?

[William Anderson]

.jeff wrote:
> william,
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> > From: William Anderson
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> > > thought we had decided to go with gandi.net.  is that
> > > still the gameplan?
> >
> > domain registration and whois entries != nameservers
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> yes, i'm well aware of that.  however, gandi also happens to offer
> primary/secondary dns though.

yah, brain wasn't engaged - i tend to usually regard registrars as such, and
only use their nameservers for secondary, i prefer having the utmost control
over my domains :)

> alternatively, everydns.net (run by a member of thelist) also offers dns.
> i've been using their service for almost a year now and am very, very
> pleased with it.  the nice thing is that dns would be off our system and
> behind a password protected web interface that could be managed by any
> number of competent users (that we provide access to).

+1 on a managed service but -1 on everydns.net

I'm with John on this one - I'd rather use a full commercial service such as
gandi with a contract, SLA and a modicum of generous uptime.

I think that unless one of our own boxen (e.g. the eouk raq) performs
primary nameservice for us, having an outsourced pri ns with multiple
orchestrated admins from sysadmin is a good call - having to constantly
route dns changes through Ron (or whoever in future) must have been a pain
in the ass for him.

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