Re: Recommendations for domain registration

[Mike <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>]

Good point, especially if you are hosting the server yourself.

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Mike Wills
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On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Many thanks to all who offered suggestions - just to clarify It was a
> DNS service that I wanted. Next time I post on a subject like this I
> will try to be clearer as to my needs. In my own defence it was a
> somewhat stressful time!
>
> For the benefit of the archives - while it may not be my long term
> solution - what I have done for now is to establish a secondary DNS
> server with FreeDNS (http://freedns.afraid.org) and modified my name
> server entries to include references to their name servers.
>
> In other words my name server list now looks something like this:
>
> ns1.mydomain.com
> ns1.afraid.org
> ns2.mydomain.com
> ns2.afraid.org
> etc.
>
> I've already seen the effect in action as the two mydomain servers at
> the top of my list failed yesterday for a short time and my sites were
> still reachable via the secondary servers.
>
> I will never trust my DNS resolution to a single company ever again.
> It seems that no matter how big you are and how much redundancy is
> built into your network it is still next to impossible to handle all
> conceivable DDOS attacks if the bastard initiating it os sufficiently
> smart/determined.
>
>
> Jon Paris
>
> www.Partner400.com
> www.SystemiDeveloper.com
>
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