Re: [freedns] GraniteCanyon down / How to change IP if former one cannot be used anymore?

[Neil Chapman <neilc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey there Joachim,

I would quite happily put the record on my primary and secondary servers for you.

Just send me the details and I'll set it up for you today.

Regards
Neil Chapman
 

Joachim Kupke wrote:

Hi.

I have been using the za.{net,org} service very happily for quite a while
now; registered domains include:

  kupke.za.net         -- This is for me, MXes my (regular) mail
  mattheisen.za.net    -- These four
  aulenkamp.za.org        were introduced
  auli.za.org             for some
  greuel.za.org           friends for similar purposes
  golf-kambach.za.org  -- (Non-profit use for a) Golf Course
  gutenberg.za.org     -- Grammar school in this area

Essentially, I could use 212.202.16.191 as static IP address,
GraniteCanyon provided me with secondary DNS services.

The problems are the following ones:

- My ISP has gone bank-rupt, and all mapped IP addresses were
  remapped by the new company (resulting in 194.221.170.50 for me)
- The former IP cannot be accessed anymore.
- GraniteCanyon (their web server) is down for some days now, I
  cannot update the information there.
- Registering a nameserver with za.{net,org} requires that its IP
  address can be reverse-looked-up. Since this is no longer the case,
  I registered with dyn.ns1.net in order to provide a name exterior
  to the desired domain (it's all about "kupke.za.net" primarily).
- Modifying domain information with za.{net,org} requires me to send
  a mail from the former contact mail address, which is
  "joachim@xxxxxxxxxxxx"; since kupke.za.net resolves (MX) to
  212.202.16.191, which is definitely DEAD, I have a chicken-egg
  problem. (OK, I do agree that it might have been unwise to supply
  an email address depending on its domain; Network Solutions allow
  to use a password instead of 'Mail from' as an auth scheme...)

The host in question has been offline from June 12th to June 15th, and I
have spent yesterday trying to redelegate the "kupke.za.net" domain.
Effectively, I would be glad still to receive some delayed mail, considering the
default queue wait time of 7 days at most mail servers. After having learned
quite something about the difficulties now, I would like to ask the
za.{org,net} operators (e.g. Christiaan Keet?!) if it was possible to preliminarily
substitute the IP addresses in question (212.202.16.191 by 194.221.170.50) _by
hand_ in the zone database, at least for allowing me to wait for the Public
DNS service at GraniteCanyon to come back to life again.

I would be VERY thankful to whomever could solve my problem(s).

Note: Differently to stated on the ZaNiC web pages zone transfers of
za.{org,net} ARE possible (although not from all servers); grepping for
granitecanyon then yields 118 different domain names relying on that service. Since I
have heard some people complaining about GraniteCanyon, I officially offer
my server as a publicly and freely available secondary DNS server for
non-profit domain names.

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Sincerely,
Joachim Kupke

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