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

[Joachim Kupke <ns1temp@xxxxxxx>]

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.

-- 
Sincerely,
Joachim Kupke

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