RE: [Sheflug] Domain registration companies

["French, Alastair" <nospam [at] racalinst.co.uk>]

Thanks for the reply, I have commented below

Alastair

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	home@alexhudson.com [SMTP:home [at] alexhudson.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, March 13, 2001 1:34 PM
> To:	Sheflug
> Subject:	Re: [Sheflug] Domain registration companies
> 
> 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. 
> 
	I will be getting a dynamic IP, which is why I want a secondary mail
host to catch mail when (if) I am not connected or when I am forced to
change IP's. From all accounts this is not very often. The supplier will be
Blueyonder.

> 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 :)
> 
	That exactly what I mean

> I don't know of anyone who will do that for you, I would imagine it's
> actually quite hard to setup. 
	A mate of mine is doing it with NTL and the publicdns
(granitecanyon) but they have had a few major probs recently and I am a bit
warey of them.
> The better options are to either (a) maildrop off the ISP mail server
> [preferred]
	The intention is to be running majordomo for a another domain as
well (very low traffic) so I'd rather have it direct
>  or (b) have one MX record and make people spool when you're offline [not
> preferred :)]
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Alex.
> 
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