[Hosting] [Fwd: Re: [TriLUG] dyndns]

[Jeremy Portzer]

I understand that -- and I think others had come to that same
conclusion.  It's not a big priority for me; I think we need to finish
our LDAP/kerberos transition, and fatalpha updates, as a priority.

But as you mentioned on IRC, acting as a secondary DNS for people's
personal domains is a possibility.

What's the status of the sparc backup server?  Did you get a chance to
install Linux yet?

--Jeremy

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 11:11, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> Sorry to take so long getting back to this.  Evolution didn't show this
> folder as having any new messages until today?!?
> 
> Anyway, last I looked, all these dynamic dns programs were 
> horribly insecure.  Also, Kevin has mentioned this a few
> times, and I'm starting to agree with him.  I'm not sure that
> people should come to think of TriLUG as their ISP.  Yes,
> we have shell and e-mail, but if we keep expanding our services
> like this it's likely to get out of hand.  I don't see
> this as a good use of our resources (although, I'm open to
> being persuaded otherwise...).
> 
> Tanner
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 23:26, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> > I think this is a great idea... anyone see any drawbacks?  Anyone have
> > any experience doing this kind of thing?
> > 
> > --Jeremy
> > 
> > -----Forwarded Message-----
> > 
> > From: Jason Tower <jason@cerient.net>
> > To: trilug@trilug.org
> > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] dyndns
> > Date: 27 Oct 2002 20:56:07 -0500
> > 
> > i don't know the particulars of trilug's hosting at inflow, but would it be 
> > possible to run our own DNS server with dynamic update capabilities?  that 
> > way members could get membername.trilug.org mapped to their own IPs.  a quick 
> > glance at freshmeat showed several possible candidates:
> > 
> > http://www.cencula.com/dynamicdns.html
> > http://www.ddts.org/about.php3
> > http://www.dhis.org/
> > http://freshmeat.net/projects/dyndnsservice/?topic_id=150%2C149
> > 
> > just a thought - jason
> > 
> > 
> > On Sunday 27 October 2002 18:53, Greg Brown wrote:
> > > I was just getting ready to get dynamic DNS up and running when I read
> > > on dyndns that they no longer offer <username>.dyndns.org.  You are now
> > > required to register a domain name any pay the $50.00 per year for the
> > > service.
> > >
> > > Is there another dynamic DNS provider out there that anyone suggests
> > > using?
> > >
> > > Greg
> > >
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> > Jason Tower
> > Cerient Technologies
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