Control of MX record - (Was - Re: [Gllug] Web hosting, email and dns)

[Sean Burlington]

Colin Murphy wrote:
> On Saturday 07 September 2002 11:09 am, Jason Clifford wrote:
> 
>>On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Colin Murphy wrote:
>>
>>>Through the 123-reg web interface, I've only got access to change A
>>>and CNAME records.  Is this unusual?  If so, would this be peculiar to
>>>just .me.uk domains?  If I had bought a .co.uk would I have got more
>>>control?
>>
>>It is unusual that you get any direct control at all if you are not
>>running your own name servers.
> 
> 
> Do you think that's what Sean originally meant when he said "They don't 
> offer much by way of DNS - but allow you to take control of that easily."
> 
> 
> 
what I meant was ...

they offer a limited amount of stuff like web and email forwarding,
and have recently allowed you to enter A and CNAME records
(which I haven't used)

but also make it easy for you to specify your own DNS servers

I am lucky enough to have access to a couple of DNS servers through work 
- so this is the route I use.

Otherwise (for non-commercial stuff) I would probably use one of the 
free dns sites

I can't find the urls for these just at the moment although
http://www.dyndns.org/statdns/
may do the job ...


some domain name sellers seem to make money by making it hard for you to 
use any services other than thier own - what I like about 123-reg is 
that you get a cheap domain without getting tied in to expensive extras

Sean


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