[ale] Grrr, IP changed

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 06:05 -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> I signed up originally worth register.com for my rdlg.net domain.
> Turns out I was moved to poweryourname.com partner.  No problems Wii
> org them but a bit slow to respond to questions and more than basic
> services can be challenging to find info on.  

You might find it advisable to find a static service for your
authoritative name servers, even if they slave off of your master at
your cable IP.  I use Hurricane Electric for that.  If you're a tunnel
broker registered user (free) or one of their other clients you can
register for free dns hosting, which includes master or slave services
and which can included reverse DNS, if you have that ability (unlikely).
Then, when your IP address changes, you can just update the record at
that service while they still maintain record caches, plus you have
distributed name servers for yourself.

For normal security recommendations for robust DNS, I highly recommend
keeping your master name server private to yourself and only having
public authoritative name servers that are slaves from your master.
Makes it more difficult for attackers to compromise your master name
server.  Also, resolvers / cachers should be kept private and separate
from your authoritative name servers.

Regards,
Mike

> :wq!
> 
> On Jan 17, 2014 5:01 AM, "Leam Hall" <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
>         Morning Robert!
>         
>         Not sure who your DNS service is through, but that would be
>         where you would change it. If you use whois it will tell you
>         the registrar and DNS servers supporting the domain.
>         
>                 whois <mydomain.org>
>         
>         That might get you started in the right direction. I use
>         DynDNS but others have had good success elsewhere.
>         
>         Leam
>         
>         
>         On 01/16/2014 10:59 PM, Robert L. Harris wrote:
>                 
>                    Ok, it's happened, it's been over a year and my
>                 cablemodem IP changed
>                 since I was offline for 2 days.
>                 
>                    I need to change the IP registered for my primary
>                 name server.  I
>                 can't find my notes from 2 years ago.  I can't find it
>                 anywhere in my
>                 registrar which is where I thought I did it last time.
>                 
>                    Even though I'm in Colorado, no I'm not smoking,
>                 inhaling, eating,
>                 etc.  Someone point me the right way so I can get my
>                 domain back online?
>                 
>                 Robert
>         
>         
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