Re: DNS Questions

From: JB (info@bwp.net)
Date: Wed Nov 19 2003 - 18:59:44 EST


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~jb

Jim McAtee wrote:

> Just received the announcement that Tucows will be offering their DNS service
> beginning in December and checked out the details at the RRC.
>
> Is there a pricing page that I missed?
>
> How will the service be priced - do each of the little add-ons, such as the
> domain forwarding and "under construction" page each carry a monthly fee?
>
> Does Tucows offer geographically diverse DNS servers? How many servers are
> there and where are they located? Is any kind of redundancy is employed -
> are they clustered, for instance?
>
> Is there no secondary-only DNS offering? I know this was discussed
> previously. Overall, the DNS service seems like somethng being sold more to
> resellers than to end-users, so I'm surprised that secondary DNS wouldn't be
> offered. A service where Tucows' servers are authoritative, but pick up zone
> updates from a reseller's (stealth) DNS servers might also be attractive.
>
> Can multiple zones share common zone files, other than the one "default
> zone"? That is, can I point 100 domains(zones) at one set of records, 50
> domains at another set, etc.? As a web host, we do this commonly, with one
> or two zone files per physical hosting web server. All domains share the
> same information and if an IP address changes, it means just updating one
> zone for all of the affected sites running on that server. If a customers
> has DNS needs beyond the basic web/ftp/email that we provide, we break them
> out into their own zone and maintain it as needed.
>
> Can the zone files be edited directly, either by the reseller or by the
> customer? Or are the API and RWI based only on per-record transactions?
>
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