various ramblings

-- justin kelly

cloudflare.com - finally a free and great DNS host!!

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Just moved all my domains DNS over to cloudflare.com
-  finally a free and great DNS host!!

Not only does cloudflare provide dns hosting but they also provide free CDN services and also free protection from web spammers
-- cloudflare is from the guys behind http://projecthoneypot.org

Only a couple of minor issues

1 - cloudflare doesn't auto import your google apps srv records
2 - creating srv records via the web dns editor is painful
- easiest option is to just download your zone file from cloudflare and add in the below records for SRV
3 - there need to be an easy way to create all the required dns records for Google Apps - just as editdns does

thanks @cloudflare !!!

how to setup require google sub-domains for google apps with the free namecheap.com dns hosting

note: the googleffffffffcbf55ae7 sub-somain is for verification purposes - you'll

update: the below html paste didn't work out to well, in the 3rd column select CNAME (Alias)

 SUB-DOMAIN SETTINGS 
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   MAIL SETTINGS 

how to setup SRV records ( for google apps IM ) on the free namecheap.com DNS hosting

setting up SRV records -so you can user google IM for your google apps domain is a real pain with namecheap.com

- below is what you need to enter

note: when entering the _SEVRICE don't enter the first _ (underscore) as the save will fail and you'll loose all your data - namecheap adds it in after its saved

update: the below html paste didnt work to well - but you should be able to figure it out
 SRV SETTINGS 
  _SERVICE._PROTOCOL PRIORITY   WEIGHT     PORT         TARGET
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