[asterisk-users] Nufone problems

[C F]

Talking about who their registr is. do a whois on nufone.net i was
very surprised to see the whois results.

On 7/27/07, Joe Greco <jgreco at ns.sol.net> wrote:
> > <quote who="C F">
> > > Why is their DNS failing?
> >
> > Looks like ns1 is down.  Probably their master DNS server.
> > ns2 is up, but looks like their zone expired, since it could not refresh
> > from ns1, so it is no longer reporting authoritative for nufone.net.
> >
> > They should look into longer expiry times on their SOA record.
>
> Nufone seems to have a lot of DNS problems.
>
> Several years ago, when their domain expired with their registrar, I
> pointed out that GoDaddy was a bad choice of registrars to begin with,
> for a variety of reasons.  They're great if you want some cheap domain
> name and hosting for your personal blog.  However, for commercial
> enterprises, they're actually dangerous, as they have some "anti-spam"
> policies which allow GoDaddy to turn off your domain if you appear
> (note the specific word, "appear") to be involved with spam.
>
> I suggested at that time that I had trouble accepting as serious a phone
> provider who could not take reasonable steps to guarantee ongoing
> Internet DNS visibility, since DNS resolvability is necessary for VoIP.
>
> I suggested at the time that they should become an OpenSRS reseller, and
> turn on auto-renew, renew for as many years as possible (10 in the case
> of .net), and they'd have much less to worry about on the unexpected-
> domain-expiration front.
>
> However, this is far from the only step that you need to take to ensure
> continued DNS resolution on the Internet.  Increased values in the SOA
> are okay, but better yet is not using master/secondary configurations
> (which are, admittedly, incredibly convenient).  Working out some SSH
> copy-and-restart magic is better.  Monitoring logs for DNS system failures
> is better.  Having more than two DNS servers, and having all of them be
> masters, that would be excellent.
>
> Things like DNS are part of what make up the electronic foundation for
> your Internet based business.  It's easy to make mistakes, but there's
> good advice to be had on how to correct it.
>
> ... JG
> --
> Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
> "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then
> I
> won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail
> spam(CNN)
> With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many
> apples.
>
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