[Cialug] network solutions

[Matt Stanton]

I have all of my domains at Dyn.com.  They have servers all over the planet, and got their start with their dynamic DNS service back in the 90s.  My original reason for using them was that they would let me set up some of my subdomains as dynamic, with others as static, so I could have www.* point to my server and home.* point to my dynamic IP at my house.

After I switched from a physical, colocated box to Linode, I wrote a little php script that would take web requests from my home computer (using curl and the windows task scheduler running every 5 minutes) to grab the IP address and the Linode DNS API to change the IP addresses of whichever subdomains I specified.  This saved me that extra $30/domain I was paying to get the "custom DNS service".

Dyn has some awesome infrastructure, and I believe they might also be running one or more of the root servers, but you also tend to pay extra for their domains.  I think the .com/.net/.org/.us domains are $15/yr, while I'm pretty sure other registrars provide those types of domains for as low as $9.95/yr.

I have thought about transferring to other registrars a few times, but never really decided that the hassle of the move was worth the extra $15/yr I might be paying for my three domains.

-- Matt (N0BOX)

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-----Original Message-----
From: "Daniel A. Ramaley" <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu>
To: cialug at cialug.org
Sent: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] network solutions

On 2013-07-17 at 10:28:53, Nicolai wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:10:09AM -0500, Dave Hala wrote:
>> Gandi looks interesting, but I wonder if the electronic transfer of
>> funds to a foreign bank could be an issue.
>
>It's never been an issue for me, and I've been a customer since at
>least 2000.  Give them a try. :)

When i was with Wells Fargo, using my card to pay Joker was never an 
issue for me. Now i'm on a smaller credit union and their computer 
freaks out whenever it sees a foreign transaction that i did not warn 
them about in advance. It just depends on what financial institution 
you are with. It is a simple problem that is easily fixed with a phone 
call though. Not a big deal.
__
Daniel A. Ramaley
Network Engineer 2

Dial Center 112, Drake University
2407 Carpenter Ave / Des Moines IA 50311 USA
Tel: +1 515 271-4540
Fax: +1 515 271-1938
E-mail: daniel.ramaley at drake.edu
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