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• dns goop (Score:1)

  by lachoy (1663)

  IIRC (it's been a while), but each 'third-level' domain is just another host with its own A (address) or CNAME (alias to an A) record -- www.mysite.com, mail.mysite.com, use.mysite.com, etc. The folks who maintain your DNS definitely need to do this for you as it's all part of the same hostfile.
  • Re:dns goop (Score:1)

    by Purdy (2383)

    Hmm ... ok. That answers one of my questions. My punk-ish ISP folks charge me $50/DNS entry/year ... not sure if a third-level is worth that (yet). I was trying to install RT [fsck.com] and it wants its own virtual domain in your httpd.conf file... I tried with an Alias and Location tag in the httpd.conf, but that didn't seem to work.

    Jason
    • Re:dns goop (Score:1)

      by lachoy (1663)

      $50 per domain or $50 per DNS entry? The latter is highway robbery, IMO. Changing the zone takes on the order of 60 seconds even for a slow typist, and zones are changed very rarely. If so you should look into another service: maybe even the (super cool perl supporters [dyndns.org]) DynDNS [dyndns.org]. It seems like the Custom DNS service lets you admin your zone from the web. Tres cool.
      • Re:dns goop (Score:1)

        by triv (2745) <reversethis-{gro.virt} {ta} {lrep.esu}> on 2002.02.19 23:12 (#4777) Homepage Journal

        Yeah, Custom DNS is what you want. All writen in supper yummy mod_perl modules (c:

        # /me laughs evilly
DynDNS::User->new($luser)->delete;

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