[OOTB-infra] DNS

[Martin Cosgrave]

I think there is an issue with non-free services, it's not necessarily 
the cost, it's remembering to renew them - when there is no budget this 
might mean scrabbling for sponsors at a difficult time. If there is a 
possibility to do it free then why not?

We will need a domain registrar anyway account so that I can transfer 
the domain name to it. They all (most?) provide free DNS hosting. It's 
on godaddy at the moment and their DNS configurator is tolerably good. 
If we created a bee godaddy account it would be a simple transfer.

Cloudflare also provide a decent DNS configurator for free.

Both would be preferable to paid services IMHO.


On 18/02/15 20:30, Heiko Robert wrote:
> Why not using the service at the hoster? It's not free (incl. org 
> domain ~10€/y) but reliable and allows full access and automation.
> Yes - and it's a bad idea to host our own dns since this has to be 
> secure and high available.
> As an alternative we could use a DNS provider with webspace and email 
> smart host. This would keep the primary website also high available 
> and mails are send from a trusted server. I prefer smaller providers 
> in europe with no free offer. This keeps the bad guys and big brother 
> away.
>
> Am 18.02.2015 um 11:33 schrieb Martin Cosgrave:
>> Manage yes. Host, no. You need two DNS servers on diff networks to be 
>> able to host DNS. Imagine what happens if a DNS server attempts to 
>> get an update from our DNS and it happens to be down with no 
>> alternate server listed? We could end up taking the domain off the 
>> internet for the period of the TTL
>>
>> Perhaps a ootb cloud flare account is how to go. Also if we can have 
>> an ootb account with a domain name provider I can transfer the domain 
>> and we could just use the provider's DNS
>>
>> Enviado con Aquamail para Android
>> http://www.aqua-mail.com
>>
>>
>> El 18 de febrero de 2015 11:14:54 El Gigantes 
>> <el_gigantes at hotmail.co.uk> escribio:
>>
>>> I do think INFRA should manage the DNS. I’ll put that on a list of 
>>> things to attend to later on today and come up with a proposal/options.
>>> _________________________________________
>>> If you do things right, people won’t know that you’ve done anything 
>>> at all.
>>>
>>> > On 17 Feb 2015, at 19:42, Martin Cosgrave <martin at ocretail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > So what to do with DNS?
>>> >
>>> > Since I donated the domain, the DNS is currently managed under my 
>>> godaddy account. I would much prefer for the DNS records to be under 
>>> the management of the Board, or alternatively the INFRA committee.
>>> >
>>> > We could host a DNS server in the virtual infrastructure but if 
>>> the host was down there could be pain.
>>> >
>>> > Perhaps it would be better to look at a free dns provider e.g. 
>>> http://freedns.afraid.org/
>>> >
>>> >
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