Search Again: Re: Version 4.0 - Multi-User - Multi-Home? From: Men & Mice Support Date: Friday, November 15, 2002 Time: 2:40:28 pm Sorry for the delay. Here are the three points which, taken together, make this virtual server idea somewhat tedious to use. - Only one copy of QuickDNS Central can manage a particular copy of QuickDNS Remote. I don't mean "at a time", I mean period. Once you add a name server to one copy of Central, it will refuse to be connected to another copy of Central. - When you log into QuickDNS Central with QuickDNS Manager, Central tells Manager the names (and possibly IP addresses) of your DNS servers (the machines running QuickDNS Remote). - When you create a zone, NS records are provided that reflect the currently-connected name servers, and their names are (to reiterate) defined just once in QuickDNS Central. Also, the master server name in the SOA record is set to what QuickDNS Manager thinks is the appropriate value. So the upshot is, every time a reseller created a new zone, he would have to change the NS records and the master server field of the SOA record to reflect his names for the servers. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy At 12:42 PM -0800 11/14/02, ITG Lists wrote: >Chris. > >That's too bad. That would be a compelling reason to buy the multi-user >license to allow resellers to manage their own virtual nameservers. How >difficult is it? > >George > >> > > Yes, multi-homing is possible. However, the design of QuickDNS 4 > > makes use of multiple names for a server a complicated and tedious > > endeavor. > > ____________________________________________________________________ >> Chris Buxton Men & Mice >> support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy >> >> At 3:46 PM -0800 11/13/02, ITG Lists wrote: >> >Hi, > > > > > >I am looking at upgrading from 3.53 to 4.x on OS X. I like the > > >Multi-User ability to allow people to manage DNS. Can we multi-home >now > > >so that the name servers can be ns1.abc.com and ns1.efg.com? This >would > > >be great for resellers to manage their own domains. > > > >> >Thanks >> >George >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> End of Quickdns-Talk Digest >>

Messages In This Thread: Version 4.0 - Multi-User - Multi-Home? by ITG Lists on Nov 13, 2002 at 3:53:25 pm Re: Version 4.0 - Multi-User - Multi-Home? by Men & Mice Support on Nov 13, 2002 at 4:03:29 pm Re: Version 4.0 - Multi-User - Multi-Home? by ITG Lists on Nov 14, 2002 at 12:43:09 pm Re: Version 4.0 - Multi-User - Multi-Home? by Men & Mice Support on Nov 15, 2002 at 2:40:28 pm