From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 17 05:20:05 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D93E1065670 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:20:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 211528FC17 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:20:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id mBH5Kc69093859; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:20:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:19:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:19:59 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Matt Emmerton Message-ID: <20081217051959.GD11226@thought.org> References: <20081216234235.GA4593@thought.org> <104079537551833802407591023971219248307-Webmail@me.com> <4E4E9B506F504C4BB0C1713423F970CF@hermes> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E4E9B506F504C4BB0C1713423F970CF@hermes> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, WHOIS_PRIVACYPOST autolearn=no version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: Peter Giessel , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: looking for a secondary. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:20:05 -0000 On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:20:59PM -0500, Matt Emmerton wrote: > >On Tuesday, December 16, 2008, at 02:42PM, "Gary Kline" > > wrote: > >> > >>i was recently informed that the firm that bought secondary.com is going > >>to > >>begin charging $100/mo. i nearly choked on that, but whatever... i'm > >>looking for an *.org who does DNS secondaries free oe nearly so. i know > >>there is at least one place, but it's been years. > > > >Not free, but nearly so: > >http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/secdns/ > > > >$17.50/year = $1.46/month... > > Other options include: http://www.backupdns.com/index.html > > $0.80/month/zone for a small number of zones. > > Or http://www.zoneedit.com > > They will host DNS (primary and/or secondary) for 5 zones, free of charge > (subject to bandwidth). > well, i've certainly asked more ignorant q's, so hrer goes: what is a ``zone''? i do my own dns and have since 04/2001. thought.org is my one domain, altho i've got several virtual websites. a number of people have offered to be my secondary, something that warms me to the core. this happened once before--i needed a secondary and had to scramble. like to take care of it before something else happened! --i'm rambling, sorry. again, a Zone is? thanks, gary ps: $17.50 *is* reasonable, come to think of it... . > -- > Matt Emmerton > > > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.17a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php