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RE: Register.com DNS outages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michienne Dixon)
Mon Nov 15 17:37:24 2010
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:37:08 -0600
From: "Michienne Dixon" <mdixon@nkc.org>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
-----Original Message-----
From: esanborn@tsd-inc.com [mailto:esanborn@tsd-inc.com]=20
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 7:09 AM
To: ml@kenweb.org; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: Register.com DNS outages
Possibly, although register.com does not allow this. Maybe other DNS
hosting companies do...
-----Original Message-----
From: ML [mailto:ml@kenweb.org]
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 10:59 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Register.com DNS outages
On 11/14/2010 10:20 PM, John Lightfoot wrote:
> My company uses register.com for DNS hosting and we were hit by its=20
> troubles this weekend. I know there are companies that offer backup=20
> DNS services, but those seem to be aimed at companies that host their=20
> own DNS, which we're not really interested in doing at this time. Are
> there mainstream DNS hosting companies that allow customers to use a=20
> second company for their backup DNS? Does register.com allow this?
>
DYNDNS.com is a company that does what you are looking for, to a degree.
They provide a back-up DNS service but under the assumption that they
are backing up your server. I should not be that difficult to setup
delegation with your primary DNS provider.
Why not just add multiple Names servers from multiple providers under
your Domain Registration?
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Michienne Dixon
Network Administrator
liNKCity
312 Armour Rd.
North Kansas City, MO 64116
www.linkcity.org
(816) 412-7990
