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DanB35:
I'm kind of surprised at the discouraging posts here. I know SME doesn't support it out of the box, that's why I asked on the contribs forum rather than on the main forum.
The situation is that I registered x.com, x.net, x.us, and x.info. The latter two (and really, the .net) are really registered just to keep someone else from registering them and being confusing. Of course, if the names are registered, they might as well resolve, but I don't want to spend a lot (or any, really, if I can help it) of money on DNS hosting for these domains. The free hosts I'd used in the past aren't free any more, so I though it was something I might pursue on the SME server.
Thanks for the afraid.org suggestion--I'll have to check it out.
Knyte:
--- Quote from: DanB35 on June 01, 2012, 12:56:25 AM ---I'm kind of surprised at the discouraging posts here. I know SME doesn't support it out of the box, that's why I asked on the contribs forum rather than on the main forum.
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I think what you might be looking for is a CentOS/SME version of BIND. Not sure if there's a contrib, and I doubt most ppl here would want that (I don't!).
--- Quote from: DanB35 on June 01, 2012, 12:56:25 AM ---The situation is that I registered x.com, x.net, x.us, and x.info. The latter two (and really, the .net) are really registered just to keep someone else from registering them and being confusing. Of course, if the names are registered, they might as well resolve, but I don't want to spend a lot (or any, really, if I can help it) of money on DNS hosting for these domains. The free hosts I'd used in the past aren't free any more, so I though it was something I might pursue on the SME server.
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OK that makes more sense. Most domain registrars allow you to 'park' a domain, too. In your situation I'd just use the registrar's DNS to point x.net x.us and x.info --> x.com. Only one record per domain, and if for some reason the IP for x.com changes, you will only have to update ONE record (x.com) and the rest will still fwd OK.
And yeah...afraid.org is completely free (but they like donations!).
janet:
DanB35
--- Quote ---The situation is that I registered x.com, x.net, x.us, and x.info..... they might as well resolve, but I don't want to spend....money on DNS hosting for these domains.
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I would be registering with (or transferring online immediately to) someone who provides Nameserver & DNS hosting included with the domain name registration. I'm aware of some expensive "big name" Registrants charging $100 per domain for the domain name only, you have to pay extra for Nameserver & DNS hosting, whereas other "low end" registrants give you everything for $10 with a nice little web panel to configure it all.
Shop around.
Thanks for the afraid.org suggestion--I'll have to check it out.
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