If you want I can host your DNS for a dollar per year on our georedundant DNS system, would like feedback on the management. It's all handled in the WHMCS Client area. We do this for our current VPS

I have an extra low end VPS which I'll just use as the DNS box and figure out from there.

No that is not correct... HTTP != DNS. The only reason you need a dedicated IP for HTTPS is that otherwise, the server doesn't know which domain's SSL certificate needs to be used.

for some reason google dns directed me to 127.0.0.2 (Image)

https://dns.he.net/

This feature is not officially supported so we offer no guarantees. At the moment AXFR is enabled on our nameservers but whenever you make change to the dns records on our website the nameservers will

Or else transfer completely away from their NS and use your own, or some other DNS provider's.

Well i'm using internet.bs's nameserver+webinterface to manage my domains, so i can't really play around with config files. I know that just copying all records over to a 2nd DNS hoster and adding it

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Can someone tell me how to setup a secondary DNS? I am currently using internet.bs's name servers but i'd like to have some sort of backup since i've already experienced 2 downtimes with them.

That might be right, but that's only applicable to the primary DNS. If you just use afraid.org for secondary DNS there's nothing they can force you to do. :-)

he dns is great.

List of free secondary DNS providers: http://efball.com/dns/

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* http://freedns.afraid.org (My choice since more than 8 years)

1984hosting.com also has free DNS Service.

There's an article on the LET wiki about free DNS providers, and I wanted to add some information about restrictions on HE DNS (being the 100 records limit), but I can't for the life of my find out ho

http://www.lowendtalk.com/wiki/free-dns-providers

Softlayer and Rackspace have free DNS services available

Or, are there any "better" alternatives out there excluding HE's DNS?