I've only been with Linode for a short time period but I have thus far had a better experience than I have with any other hosting company. With some help from this forum set and a few websites I have been able to successfully and with very little trouble setup bind to function properly for my DNS needs.

I am therefore willing to extend this offer...

I will provide DNS services for any Linode user. At present I should be able to do so for very little charge. As I only have one 1 Linode both of the nameservers are actually a single machine. This means that if my Linode goes down then so does the DNS.

If there is enough interest (eg. users willing to pay) then I could purchase and setup a second linode that is dedicated to providing primary DNS Services only. At present I could see where this would be around $12/year for each user and maybe even less if there are enough users interested.

At present it would include:
Custom DNS Control Panel
Unlimited DNS Entries

Anyone who is interested should send an email to dns at snowprods dot com with a subject line of Linode DNS.

Do you have site that I can look at for this dns?

I would have a great interest need more details.

new kid

The site has yet to be developed as there hasn't been any expressed interest. If you are interested then I can add the default zone information for you manually and then get the interface running within the next few days.

Default zone would be something like this....

$TTL 3D
@       IN      SOA     yourdomain.com. admin.yourdomain.com. (
                                2003110701      ; Serial
                                8H              ; Refresh
                                2H              ; Retry
                                4W              ; Expire
                                1D )            ; Minimum
                        NS      ns1.snowprods.com
                        NS      ns2.snowprods.com.
                        MX      10 yourdomain.com.       ; Mail Exchanger
yourdomain.com.          A       69.56.173.162
*.yourdomain.com.        A       69.56.173.162

If this doesn't work out, bare in mind that an increasing number of domain registrars are providing dns service (along with url and email forwarding for those who want it) as part of the package. I have several domains at GoDaddy.com where I am also making use of their dns. That became 'free' only a few months ago. Its pretty good although I don't think it allows wildcards which would be nice. Transferring a com, net or org to them right now is only $6.95 for a year.

I have a few more at MyDomain.com. The dns at MyDomain.com is free even if your domain is registered elsewhere. Its pretty good too.

Cheers
Ross

Godaddy provides dns services? for free?

I only question this because I checked there before I attempted to do it on my own and didn't see it anywhere.

That's also part of the reason why I made the offer. I was using mydomain.com for a little while and the time it took for some of my changes to show up didn't satisfy my needs. I've also noticed that many of us who use Linodes would prefer something a little more powerful (and it doesn't hurt that it was designed with us in mind).

Sure do. They have done for a couple of months. Go to www.godaddy.com and see the big red FREE near the top right corner. It was a bit confusing and hard to find at first but I logged in last night and the user interface has changed again and looks a lot better. Their label 'Total DNS Control' may be stretching things a bit but it does all that most people need to do.

I've always had pretty good service from GoDaddy.

Ross

From what I can see, this is only provided if you are hosting with Godaddy. As I am not, this doesn't work for me nor with anyone else using Linodes for hosting.

Why on earth are you guys using godaddy.com ? They use Windows IIS, enough said.

I'd rather pay a few bucks extra for an OpenSRS reseller (I use insue.com, plenty of them exist)

Sunny Dubey

I prefer enom personnally.

Never had a problem with them

Adam

Cost.

I'm cheap and that means that I would rather pay less for something that is really quite trivial. I mean, all they do is ensure that everyone else knows that I own the domain and that's it.

No! That is not true. I'm using their dns for about ten domains and have only signed up for and paid for domain registration.

It is hidden until you point your domain at their servers. Under 'Name servers', select 'Default Parked Nameservers'. It will automatically point you to something like PARK11.SECURESERVER.NET and PARK12.SECURESERVER.NET. After that, you see more options, including 'Total DNS Control'. You can create A (on primary and subdomains), MX and CNAMEs. As far as I can tell, it won't let you create an MX on a subdomain although I haven't played with it since the UI has changed.

As for why I use them: They are low cost, reliable and do what I want.

Ross

Oh...Ok. I haven't ever used the parked domain settings.

GoDaddy is very nice, low prices and good service. I have two domains parked with them and everything works fine.

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JTRH

www.zoneedit.com has 5 free zones and gives you 2 nameservers.

I've been pretty happy with register.com. Not as cheap as many others, but a nice web interface for managing your zones and the DNS hosting is included. More recently though, I set up DNS hosting on my linode and a box at home. I did this for a few reasons, most notably A) instant access B) short TTLs are honored and don't have to wait 4+ hours to push onto the server C) can use additional record types such as LOC and TXT, the latter being needed to use SPF.

I have a couple domains hosted at Verio, but their system (while reasonably flexible) is a bit clunky, and really is only convenient if it's attached to web hosting.

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Ed/Bones.