I mean when the holy setup works and your DNS Server is resolving the domains nicely (Image)

For the question of your own dns or third party, I am using Power DNS with 3 slaves with MySql replication. I am really happy with the performance and have much control on my records using MySql quer

Dns4.pro claims TWO servers in India.

Note that first action that should be made when buying VPS is changing its IPs PTR records (reverse DNS records), to diminish the possible collateral damage from the above attack type.

Presumably the OP is capable of setting up simple script like that, considering he or she is already considering running a DNS server. Really though there's no answer to the question, the obvious adva

With gDNSd the zone record can have an IP number for a host name that is not geocast, and/or a statement like "geoip!mysvrpool" in place of the IP for geocast host names. The &q

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What time, what money... I wonder if a technical example will illustrate it better, anyways here goes. To edit any of my DNS zones I currently:

@rm_: I just saw that you edited your previous comment with this:

So do you suggest keeping up parallel accounts at CF, Rage4, and perhaps also dns.he.net? That sounds like an order of magnitude more bothersome to set-up and keep in-sync than setting up and syncing

(As well as low TTL to be able to make DNS changes that hopefully most of your users' providers will respect and propagate quickly)

With a third-party DNS...

(We'd have to take if offline/PM if you want to discuss further. I may have misunderstood you; but I thought you meant using other DNS services as "backup"/secondaries and having th

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I've had to move stuff away from Rage4 - Google resolvers wouldn't pull the records. Changed over to GoDaddy DNS and it pulled it in within minutes

* DNS.

I've been happy with IronSocket - been with them for 2 years now, on a legacy $24/yr plan. 3 slots for DNS proxy + 3 VPN connections - unmetered bandwidth and tons of servers to pick from.

Unless you have VERY unique or specific requirements (i.e., very funky GeoDNS or algorithm-based answers depending on who is sending the query, etc) .... don't bother IMHO.

* 5 IPv4 Addresses on Private VLAN with Reverse DNS

Got the 256MB one for 3,50$/year and works ok this far. Definitely not fast but very cheap and ok as slave dns server. Didn't suspend it yet, got it for 2 weeks now.