Re: [Sheflug] Domain registration companies

[nospam [at] alexhudson.com]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:22:33PM -0000, French, Alastair wrote:
> I am just about to leave my current ISP and I would like to find someone
> that will host my domain for me. I am not after space just facilties which
> need to include mail forwarding, web fowarding and later on full DNS entry
> control i.e MX A and CNAME. Hopefully I will be getting a cable modem and
> will need to point the domain to my server but with the 'hoster' accepting
> domain as the secondary MX entry.

Firstly, you need to check with your cable modem supplier (you have an intended, I presume?) that you're getting a real, static IP - chances are, you won't be. Even with ADSL, this usually isn't the case, unless you're with Demon. 

Also, as you said, you will need someone to primary your domain for you. Demon won't (IIRC, they will only secondary), UK2 will for 1UKP-something a month, I think. You also have the option of Free DNS (or whatever they're called these days), who will act as primary for you, but I have no idea what the service is like (it's a community thing). 

Also - what do you mean by 'hoster accepting domain as secondary MX entry'? Do you mean you want to do something like:
	@ IN MX 100 mycomputer.myhouse.
	@ IN MX 110 mail.myisp.
? (paraphrasing config file :)

I don't know of anyone who will do that for you, I would imagine it's actually quite hard to setup. The better options are to either (a) maildrop off the ISP mail server [preferred] or (b) have one MX record and make people spool when you're offline [not preferred :)]

HTH,

Alex.

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