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That, in and of itself shouldn't be enough. It might be that the domain's hosted from the domain owner's private box, on Dynamic IP. Although I don't do that, I do use EveryDNS.net to give my home machine a routable name on my domain for personal use. They use a TTL of one hour, and recommend that you update your IP about every two hours to keep it current. Probably, using registration at one of those "privacy protecting registrars" is more of a tip-off.

http://cheapdomains.com.au/ does $38 for 2 years. I have mine there and they are perfectly legit, no hidden costs. Just register, enter your name servers (I use http://everydns.net/ and you are good to go.

The site is EveryDNS.Net.

I'll keep it up for Slashdot, let me just move it around a bit. :-)

-david

What parent said. The main site is http://www.everydns.net/ not .com.

Another quality, editor approved Slashdot story. Great job, guys.

How about linking to the correct url?

You could always try these guys: EveryDNS. It's free and very reliable.

Plus trying to get the entire internet to change one of its key components is a rather ambitious attempt.

This is not to replace the "entire internet" with a new DNS system. From my read of their website, it is a individual choice to set up your computer using their DNS servers. And they are being very clear about how their servers will behave and what they will do with incorrectly typed addresses. This is from the same guys who have been running one of the most reliable free DNS services, everydns.

I don't notice any performance problems, because I run my own local caching named server where the forwarders are set to the OpenDNS servers. But I like the that they will resolve misspelled domains. I haven't really used any of the anti-phishing aspects ... I generally don't fooled that way.

My question is if they NAT or do you get an IP?
More specificly, do they allow non-established TCP ports to your home system, or do they lock everything down and call it "security"?

I use a service like http://www.everydns.net/ so that my home compter has a dns entry, and grandma can view pictures of the kids (the IP can change, and your url still works). To do this I need to make sure that they allow TCP ports 80, 443, etc. I had Verizon DSL for a short while until I realised that I was not able to send web traffic to my home system, so I went with cable internet.

I wonder if they block incomming (non-established) traffic. Anyone know?

thanks!

However, dnsmadeeasy.com's pay-to-play memberships are simply the *best* hosted DNS service for propeller heads... http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/s0306/price/dns.html

Welcome to EveryDNS.net -- our project to provide free dns services to the internet community.

We provide static DNS services as well as many advanced services such as Dynamic DNS resolution, Secondary service, AXFR service, and domain2web redirection. Of course, our primary service is free DNS.

Since our start in June of 2001 we have proved to be a reliable and secure service and we have no intention of changing that. A $15-$30 dollar donation is appreciated to help our services grow and improve. Thank you for your support of this free service.

EveryDNS was also [coincidentally?] being DoS'd this weekend:

http://www.everydns.net/news.php

There are free DNS services out there like EveryDNS.net that allow you to register and list for free.

</shameless plug>

They sent my site, EveryDNS a bunch of threatening letters to take down a site that discussed techniques for winning these point games.

The weirdest part is that these points have no real monetary value and yet I was being threatened with a lawsuit for providing DNS to another site that had information about their games.

It's always upsetting when someone tries to pick on the little guys like me but it's even more annoying when they have NO CLAIM!

I'm not even going to get into the fact that I wasn't the sites ISP or network provider. I was so far removed and acting only as a part of the infrastructure and yet because I wasn't a big company, they picked on me. Can't blame them for being smart I guess...

-davidu

Well EveryDNS is a DNS hosting service which also offers dynamic addresses... It's really been great, I've been with them for the last three years without problems...

Two very good public DNS services that will act as secondary for you:

• http://www.granitecanyon.com/
• http://www.everydns.net/

They'll also act as primary, dynamic, etc. Both free, but of course they take donations! :)

Wouldn't some type of ticketing system work for this? For example, RT. I help out with a certain free dns service that started using this.

Sorry for the slightly off-topic posts...

I have become frustrated with my current domain/dns situation and need something new. What I would really like is domain name registration and DNS hosting for <= $15/year. Something reliable would be nice.

Any suggestions in general or comments on, pairNIC.com, ZoneEdit.com, MyDomain.com, or EveryDNS.net?

Fluxbox is a worthwhile WM to donate to, as well, based on Blackbox 0.6, I think. Although, I'm not sure that they have a donate link...

When I get my paypal account in order though, the first donation I make will be to these guys.

haha, yeah right, everyone's a cheap bastard. ;-)

Actually, David Weekly and the California Community Colocation Project is hosting one of my new servers at their space in HurricaneElectric's colo. So at the moment I'm good but it's always nice to get a sponsor especially at the rate I'm growing.

thanks for caring,
-davidu

For people looking for an easier and as of now more secure implementation for DNS you might want to check out tinydns, part of djbdns by the famous (or infamous) professor and programmer Dan Berstein.

DJBDNS has never had a security hole discovered and plenty of people frequently evaluate his sourcecode.

The one gripe people have with his code is that he hasn't GPL'd it or even opensourced it. What he has done which is slightly more interesting is just released it with NO license and instead just asserts ownership over his codebase. If it doesn't bother you that it isn't GPL or BSD, etc -- check it out and help make the net's DNS servers safer and more secure.

We run it at EveryDNS.Net and haven't had a problem with it yet.

I can't comment on register.com but at EveryDNS.Net we found bind to be too much of a risk to run for our servers. In the long run, DJBDNS has proven to not only be secure but also far easier to setup, administer as well as write parsers for.

it does. been tested -- it works.

here is an apache module which scans and blocks infected hosts:

Apache-Nimba-0.1.tar.gz

-dave

Hi,

I have boycottxp.com but I don't have the time to run it or set it up. If any one here is interested in helping me get it running, that'd be great.

I don't want it to be a flame site or Anti-microsoft site but rather a clear and concise set of reasons and articles on why WindowsXP is bad for consumers, developers, businesses. I have all the hosting and everything all setup. :-)

Hit me up at davidu@everydns.net if interested.

Hi,
Forward and Reverse DNS are totally different ballgames. While your upsteam provider SHOULD provide you with forward and reverse DNS they often do not. Think of it as the white pages; you get the book for free (DNS lookups) and they will list you for free (forward and reverse) -- it should be the same for the internet.

One company, Speakeasy.net is a DSL provider and they will provide a reverse PTR record for _ALL_ their static IP DSL customers. In my opinion this is good service.

With forward DNS, you can get your DNS from anyone -- I run a service called EveryDNS and we'll do it for you for free. Feel free to give it a look at EveryDNS.Net

There were three before him, two were caught, I was one. Believe me, when I was suspended they were _very_ nice to me. They said "He has shown that he is very bright in this area, but as a policy we must suspend kids for 10 days." One of the things that I feel that they can still improve is to offer more options to kids. There are no ways for a gifted student to use computers in a constructive way in this school besides word processing.

When I was suspended they asked why. I said because there was nothing else for me to do. I still believe this. If I had something more constructive to do I woul not have gotten in trouble (I now administrate 3 linux boxes and have written much code for Everydns.net).

With similar options open to me last year I would not have a suspension on my permenent record.

Apparently the school has not offered more options for students who can do more than use powerpoint and word.