[asterisk-users] Nufone problems

[Paul]

Joe Greco wrote:

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>>>Why is their DNS failing?
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>>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.
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>>They should look into longer expiry times on their SOA record.
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>Nufone seems to have a lot of DNS problems.
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>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.
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Anybody who understands the role of the registrar would disagree with
your statement. The free DNS provided by domain name registrars is
usually not adequate for serious needs. It's fine for parking domains
that you intend to use later for production needs.