----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Goodwin" <rglists@x23.com>
To: "Gordon Hudson" <gordon@hostroute.net>; "Faeren" <faeren@gospel.com>;
<discuss-list@opensrs.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: Removed Expired Domains
> At 07:28 AM 1/6/2005, Gordon Hudson wrote:
>>I have a script that takes the local domains list from the server
>>and resolves each domain.
>>The list gets ordered by IP address and any that are resolving to other
>>IP's go on the lsit to be deleted.
>
>
> Just watch out for subdomains when doing that!
>
> We had our main site hosted on one of our servers and set up another
> account on a subdomain elsewhere for a special project. The host would
> only setup service on example.com, which was fine, we just weren't going
> to use it - instead we went in and created subdom.example.com, pointed our
> dns at their server, and everything worked fine - until their reaper
> script decided we weren't using their server.
>
> Moral of the story - have your script check for subdomains in all your
> accounts and only delete if NONE of them (example.com, www.example.com,
> and sub.example.com) is pointing at your servers.
Thats a good point.
I cant say we have had a problem with that because we tend to set up
subdomains as seperate entries in our name servers rather than as A records.
I can hear hundreds of fingers russeling across keyboards as I type that!
Regards
Gordon Hudson
Hostroute.com Ltd
www.hostroute.net
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