Subject: Re: running my own DNS
From: David Loutrel (dave@loutrel.net)
Date: Sat Dec 08 2001 - 18:26:36 AKST
Hell GCI can barely keep their DNS server running as it is.
Dave LoutrelOperations Manager,
ACME Enterprises Hosting & Design
www.acme-ent.net
"For all problems, assume a perfectly spherical Jesus of uniform density
'D.'"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Tibor" <tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu>
To: <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: running my own DNS
>
> Hmm... I disagree with that one. There really aren't *any* valid
> technical reasons that GCI (or any ISP for that matter) won't do reverse
> DNS. Now, there may very well be valid BUSINESS reasons that prevent them
> from doing it, but the reality of it is that both A records and PTR
> records are each just one line in a text file. Even delegating a zone is
> completely trivial, technically speaking. The thing is, GCI (and any
> other ISP for that matter) has to look at everything they do for customers
> with a critical eye for what makes good business sense, and what doesn't.
> Doing reverse DNS for customers without charging extra doesn't make good
> business sense simply because of what you mentioned earlier--most services
> don't REQUIRE matching A and PTR records. Why offer it for free when
> there's no compelling reason to do so?
>
> To be perfectly honest, I don't know why GCI (or any other ISP for that
> matter) doesn't offer reverse DNS for an additional $10/month, just like
> doubling the basic cablemodem bandwidth, a static IP, etc. There are
> obviously people who need and/or want this, and are willing to pay for it.
>
> Mike
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