[geeks] Network Solutions rant

[David Cantrell]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 06:17:06AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 07:14:30AM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> > I love dotster - I'm moving all of my domains to Dotster as they come close
> > to expiring (so far half are housed there).  No problems - all admin can be
> > done from the web interface.  Changes take effect the same day, rather than
> > the long time (close to a week recently) it takes for NSI to make the
> > updates.
> 
> Exactly.  Web admin solves the problem of "I just had to move my system
> to another ISP without warning, and now I *cant* send mail from
> contact at mydomain".

Yep, register.com's web admin stuff works similarly well.  I only have
one minor gripe with them.  The first domain I started serving from my
DNS server was encypher.net.  So the owner told register.com the server
details, giving the IP address and giving the server name as
a.ns.encypher.net.  Now, whenever I set it up with another domain, I
have to tell it the server is a.ns.encypher.net and *not* what it should
be, plough.barnyard.co.uk.

I have no idea whether this is just more of the usual "DNS broken, film
at 11" or a register.com bug, and it's not important enough for me to
worry too much about it.  Getting it sorted out is item #3676895 on
the to-do list :-)

Mind you, if you lot think NSI are swine, you try doing anything
involving RIPE.  Uggh.  Talk about making you jump through hoops!

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