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Subject: Re: Who admins DNS?
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:25:55 +0100
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Thread-Topic: [pgsql-www] Who admins DNS?
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From: "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>,
	"Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>
Cc: "Robert Treat" <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>, <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>,
	<josh@agliodbs.com>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:jd@commandprompt.com]=20
> Sent: 10 September 2006 21:05
> To: Magnus Hagander
> Cc: Dave Page; Robert Treat; pgsql-www@postgresql.org;=20
> josh@agliodbs.com
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Who admins DNS?
>=20
> >=20
> > 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 ;)
> >=20
> > 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=20
> 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=20
> customer of=20
> theirs. I would be happy to call and see what type of=20
> accomodations they=20
> 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.