OT-ish: In need of DNS hosting

[Joshua Zeidner]

 use this for my blog: http://freedns.afraid.org/

 its free and dependable.  -jmz

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Ryan Rix <phrkonaleash at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I finally registered a domain in my own name for the purpose of lulz and
> filehosting. Unfortunately I decided I wanted a trendy domain name, not a .com
> or anything like that, so I registered rix.si via the domain registrar COBIT
> in Slovenia, since that's apparently the ONLY .si domain registrar with an
> English site.
>
> So I did it, whew, 25$ a year. And then they told me they didn't host DNS.
>
> Now, I'm cheap. :) My friend who hosts my irssi screen session lovingly
> offered up a spot on his virtual server for my site, which is basically
> awesome because I have shell access to the box, on top of many other benefits.
> :-) But, his domain is registered via a different, more sensible, registrar,
> who actually provides DNS service for the domains they register, so he doesn't
> have to dick around setting up bind9 or dnsmasq.
>
> Which leaves me in a pickle. I feel bad asking him to go through all the work
> to set up a bind9 server after he offered up space on his server for free, but
> I cannot seem to find a service that ONLY hosts DNS entries. I don't really
> need all of the services that DynDNS provides, but I'm willing to use that if
> nothing else comes up. One would think DNS hosting could be done incredibly
> cheaply, but I have found no real solutions, and any suggestions are
> appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Ryan
>
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