From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 17 23:53:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7974637B401 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 23:53:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04C5D43EA3 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 23:53:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmp@pantherdragon.org) Received: from sparx.techno.pagans (12-224-208-117.client.attbi.com [12.224.208.117]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37D061005F; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 23:53:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pantherdragon.org (speck.techno.pagans [172.21.42.2]) by sparx.techno.pagans (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91537AA92; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 23:53:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3DAFAFE5.6B558470@pantherdragon.org> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 23:53:25 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White Cc: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." , Dave Rossow , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Verisign dns trick References: <20021017150438.I88254-100000@carver.gumbysoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug White wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > > > I've got most everything with www.dotster.com.... > > > > > > Better? I dunno....works pretty well, 'cept > > their 'update nameservers' script refuses > > to acknowledge the existence of any DNS > > machine you haven't explicity registered with > > their site...and it sometimes takes a while for > > the site to determine that the NS you entered > > can be added to their database > > > > This is true with all registrars -- its a bit of the ugly underbelly > behind how data gets from the registrars to the live DNS servers. On the > plus side, once the registration is in there you can change the IPs for > the host entry and not have to update every single domain entry using that > host. > > Of course, if you use a non-verisign aligned registrar, host adds and > domain updates usually happen instantaneously so the registration burden > is much less :) Can you name a few? Looking for a registrar that allows one to have multiple domains with differing registrant information in the same account, has a reasonable update time, and isn't a Verisign puppet has proven difficult. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message