On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Michael Walma wrote: > I've verified that my DNS is RFC > compliant (or so www.dnsreport.com says it is) Thanks for the reference to this impressive checking tool. I have been using sleuth, the perl script for checking DNS. It is ok, but dnsreport.com is more comprehensive. As per the other comments about running a name server at the host: I have been running a dual homed name server (on istop/cybersurf, and bell nexxia original DSL) for years now for multiple domains. My services: mail, http, ssh, etc. are also dual-homed. I know at least one other OCLUGer with a similar setup. This has been very reliable. I didn't even notice right away when istop pulled the plug last June (whoops, good redundancy, inadequate monitoring!) The squirrel that chewed through _both_ phone lines was a problem (for an hour until I respliced them) ;-) But hey - backhoe operators have taken out fibre links between Ottawa and Toronto too. Brett