DNS Question

[Cole Tuininga]

On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 13:13 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> There should be host records with your registrar for your name servers.
> 
> e.g.:
> 
>      >whois ns1.bfccomputing.com -h whois.internic.net
>      [Querying whois.internic.net]
>      [Redirected to whois.easydns.com]
>      [Querying whois.easydns.com]
>      [whois.easydns.com]
> 
>         Server Name: NS1.BFCCOMPUTING.COM
>         IP Address: 217.160.248.65
>         Registrar: EASYDNS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
>         Whois Server: whois.easydns.com
>         Referral URL: http://www.easydns.com
> 
> But I don't see any for your host:
> 
>      >whois ns1.code-energy.com -h whois.internic.net
>      [Querying whois.internic.net]
>      [Redirected to whois.godaddy.com]
>      [Querying whois.godaddy.com]
>      [whois.godaddy.com]
>      No match for "ns1.code-energy.com" in the registrar database.

Hmmm - is this just a deficiency of hosting with GoDaddy?


> an aside: OMFG, you're not using GoDaddy for your business account, are 
> you?  

Yeah - truth be told, the only time I've needed any support was when I
transferred the domain, and they were perfectly helpful.  I used to host
with register.com and found their service to be much worse.  I tended to
need support more often because they kept screwing up the records, and
weren't helpful at all when I did need them.

I guess trying to get this resolved may cause me to work with the
support folks at GoDaddy again - we'll see how that goes.  8)

> Someone here works for 
> DynDNS which I've been using for my recent registrations.  

How are their prices?  I'm assuming they have a web control panel for
domains like everybody else?  Is there anything else about them that
makes them stand out specifically?


> In addition, there are lots of broken DNS servers and caches out there 
> (some buggy, some intentional) that don't give a whit about your TTL, 
> they've got it set for 2 weeks, and that's that.

Yikes - that sucks.  Let me guess ... AOL, Comcast, etc?

> The best way to do this, typically, is to add the new servers as NS3 
> and NS4, wait a couple weeks, remove NS1 and NS2 (remember, both in 
> your whois records and in your zone file), wait a couple weeks, add new 
> entries for NS1 and NS2 with the IP's of NS3 and NS4, wait a couple 
> weeks, then remove NS3 and NS4 for good.   It sucks, but it works.

*ewww*  I really hope I don't have to resort to that.

-- 
"I have tact.  I just choose not to use it."
-Ben Scott

Cole Tuininga
Lead Developer
Code Energy, Inc
colet at code-energy.com
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