Newbie Question about DNS Hosting

[Kevin Darcy]

Be the master. Tell your provider to make their nameservers slaves. Even
if your provider gives you one record "free", maintain the CNAMEs *and*
the A records in your own zone(s), so that everything is in one place and
you only have a single methodology for making updates. Even, in the worst
case, if you have 30 different domains to manage (the "primary" domain and
one for each CNAME), I can't imagine it would be economically advantageous
to pay ~$290/month to your provider to maintain them -- unless those names
are getting many millions of queries a day, thus necessitating a
larger-than-average, dedicated DNS server and extra bandwidth...


- Kevin

gil.danieli at everbank.com wrote:

> I'm a DNS novice, but I have the following question that I would like
> to find an answer for.
>
> I have a webserver with one Host (A) record "www.something.com" and an
> additional 29 CNAME records (aliases), all pointing at www.xxx.yyy.zzz.
> This server is located in a web hosting facility, which wants to charge
> me $10/month per record after the primary.
>
> I also have an in house email server, with one Host (A)
> record "smtp.something.com" pointing at aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd. Currently our
> ISP hosts this DNS record.
>
> Considering the cost of the DNS Hosting from our Web Hosting facility,
> I would like to host our own DNS (the web hosting facility will provide
> secondary name services for "free").
>
> Any suggestions on the best way to configure servers in this situation?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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