[Coco] domain names

Roger Taylor rtaylor at bayou.com
Thu Sep 16 13:19:50 EDT 2004


At 07:38 AM 9/16/2004, you wrote:
>Time Warner doesn't like you running any "Servers for hire" on your
>residential Roadrunner connection.  You can run any server you want,
>as long as it is not for a commercial endeaver. You also have to
>figure out how to work around the fact that Roadrunner issues dynamic
>IP addresses for their residential customers. I use ZoneEdit.com to
>manage my DNS instead of running a DNS server myself, and have a
>script that will update my IP address within my zone files should it
>ever change. Seems to work fairly well, as I haven't suffered any
>downtime that hasn't been self-inflicted since I got it working
>correctly in the first place :)

What about the delay it takes for DNS info to get updated at all the ISPs 
around the globe?  Somebody out there is bound to be pointing to your old 
IP address(es).



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Roger Taylor




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