[ILUG] 2nd dns/2nd mx hosting, was Re: web hosting

[Justin Mason]

"Paul Curtayne" said:

> I have spent a lot of time recently checking out web-hosting services.
> Suffice to say that the main Irish ISP's are unbelievably expensive
> (20mb with Tinet is ~1000 quid per year).
> Not surprisingly, US companies are *very* cheap.

On a similar subject -- anyone got any recommendations for secondary MXs
or hosting for DNS (primary or secondary)?   Does anyone do this sort of
thing?

I seem to recall seeing a DNS secondary exchange a good while ago, where
you could do a deal with other small networks to swap DNS secondary
service for each others' nets for free. That was quite neat.

I also kind of vaguely remember a secondary MX exchange, for the same
purposes.

(Basically I'm thinking of (finally) snarfing a personal domain for
myself, but without an always-on net connection (yet at least) and without
splashing out too much $$$. Surely there must be a free DNS service out
there...)

PS:  I must say, the internet's got fierce commercial, not like when Nick
@ IEunet used to secondary our domains for free ;)

--j.