Monday, 17 March 2008

DNS Kludging

It's a wonder that so many amateur users have managed to get websites up and running. Mucking around with the Domain Name Server settings for this blog has reminded me just what a kludge so much of the internet remains. I completely understand why so many small businesses don't have their own domains and use whatever email addresses and webspace their ISP gives them.

For those that don't know, Domain Name Servers are what points your domain name (e.g. bookofthefuture.co.uk) to the space that hosts your content or mail servers (in this case Google). As of now, www.bookofthefuture.co.uk does not point here and it may be another 48 hours until it does and I start to get email again to my bookofthefuture address. So much for my nice smooth weekend handover...

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