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

[Alain Williams]

On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 12:31:55PM +0100, Martyn Drake wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My hosting provider (kdawebservices.com) does offer some flexibility
> over the control of the domain you're hosting with them.  As well as the
> usual A and CNAME record changes, they do allow you to make changes to
> MX records.  However, you still have the priority 10 mail pointer active
> (and you can't change that via the control panel) BUT you can add higher
> or lower priority MX records to the domain if you wish.
> 
> Alternatively, host the DNS yourself at somewhere like EasyDNS.com or
> try the DynDNS offering at
> http://www.dyndns.org/mydyndns/custom/features.php, called MyDynDNS.
> They'd allow you to change anything for your domain for a one off fee of
> $30.

If you have ADSL host it yourself -- I do that.
I have a forwarder (ie a secondary that gets updated when I update my DNS)
that is at a site with much better connectivity than ADSL, within the
.co.uk they are listed first.

So: I maintain my DNS, a secondary shadows my changes.
The rest of the world goes to my secondary in preference to my own machine.

The only other thing to add is that I have a very long expiry just in case
I have a disaster & don't get back up for some time - like that I won't
vannish.

Works well.

-- 
Alain Williams

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