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Function of Secundary DNS

Post by rowdy »

Hi y'all...

Maybe a stupid question, but what is the function of the secundary DNS?

The problem I'm having is that my ISP sometimes changes my IP adres of my home box. And because I don't have access to the DNS records of my website hosting service, they will charge me everytime I need to change the IP of my box. So in fact I'm seraching for a DNS service at wich I can create some subdomain(s) for my domain, that'll point to my home box' IP. Is that possible with this service provided by RollerNet?

Thanks in advance,

Rowdy
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Post by RollerNetSupport »

What you're looking for is a primary DNS service, which we don't currently offer. Our Secondary DNS service is used in conjunction with a master (primary) DNS server to provide redundancy. Secondary DNS loads the zone file from a master, or primary, DNS server.
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Post by rowdy »

Hmz, I already was afraid of that... ;)

Thanks anyway... ;)
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Post by jmuscara »

Look around the web, rowdy. there are free DNS services out there. Can't think of what they are off hand, but like anything, if there's a need, there's someone to fill it! ;)
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Post by RollerNetSupport »

EveryDNS comes to mind offhand.

http://www.everydns.net/

I'm going to add Primary DNS to the lineup, but mainly for completeness; there are a lot out there and many (most?) registrars offer DNS as well.
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Post by dstutz »

I personally use http://zoneedit.com/ which is completely free under certain circumstances. (If you are running a webserver off your home connection you're probably ok.) They also support dynamic dns to automatically update your DNS record when your IP changes.

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Post by modest »

In some cases, typically for home/personal links, people use Dynamic DNS Providers like DNS2GO to host DNS records. In these cases the records need to be modified using DNS2GO (or equivalent) online configuration utilities.
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