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From: Dave Page <[email protected]>
To: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
To: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Who admins DNS?
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:25:55 +0100
Message-ID: <E7F85A1B5FF8D44C8A1AF6885BC9A0E40154CB4B@ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 10 September 2006 21:05
> To: Magnus Hagander
> Cc: Dave Page; Robert Treat; [email protected]; 
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Who admins DNS?
> 
> > 
> > I'm *sure* they provide delegation of subdomain, given the customers
> > that they have. AFAIK, UltraDNS is a professional *enterprise* DNS
> > hoster. But I can be wrong on that ;)
> > 
> > The more interesting question to ask is do they have an API for
> > dynamically updating the DNS records. (Maybe just dynamic-dns? If
> > security is configure dproperly, that should work, no?) If 
> it's an API
> > we can use, then it can definitly still be a win.

Even if they do, it doesn't eliminate the point of failure that went
last time - the zone file generation script.

> If we are seriously interested in this, CMD is a long term 
> customer of 
> theirs. I would be happy to call and see what type of 
> accomodations they 
> would be willing to make for us.

I don't believe there's any real need thanks. This is the first DNS
screw up in over 10 years, and was one I don't expect will be made
again. Moving to a whole new provider will undoubtedly cause more pain
for little, if any gain.

Regards, Dave.



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