[Sysadmin] [ronr at linuxdude.com: bounces]

[David A. Ulevitch]

On Dec 3, 2004, at 2:37 PM, David Kaufman wrote:
>
>
> William, I wasn't going to say anything, but why do you think we need 
> to run our own DNS, anyway?  I've have all of my domains on EveryDNS 
> for over a year and have been 100% satisfied with the top-notch 
> service David runs there.  Is there some configuration option you 
> can't do through the EveryDNS.net web interface?

There are a lot of things I can do personally that aren't available 
over the web...yet. :)

>
> If you just prefer to maintain (and back up) the configuration changes 
> on a server that you control, the EveryDNS servers can be slaved to 
> y/our DNS server *privately*, without modifying the public WHOIS 
> record, so that EveryDNS slurps it's data off our locally-administered 
> and security-hardened) server, but the bazillions of mailservers all 
> over the net don't hit y/our machine directly -- they hit one of 
> EveryDNS's very well connected, and geographically-, network- and 
> registrar-redundant public dns servers.  But what are we hoping to 
> gain by running our own DNS servers, other than more administration 
> work for us?
>

I fully agree.  We are working on about four years of near-perfect 
uptime.  Our backend is solid, it's our website that sucks. (cough 
*hint* cough *help* cough)

-davidu