I'm now outsourcing DNS service for both soundpolitics.com and soundpolitics.org. Let me know if it's working okay or if you notice any problems. (okay means the links to pages on this site work. Problems means you get "page not found" or similar errors when you click on links within the site).
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at November 22, 2006 01:31 AM | Email This"v=spf1 +mx +a:mail.usefulwork.com -all" [TTL=86400]
And SPF record will greatly help with SPAM. Also on that note, if you are looking for the best spam solution, check out Nuclear Elephant DSPAM. I've been blown away by just how well it works. I only get a few spams a week since switching to DSPAM.
Everyone reading this thread may also want to consider dyndns.org or similar for recursive lookups. Most ISPs do an incredibly crappy job with their recursive DNS servers. Definitely the case for QWEST, Click, CenturyTel and other local ISPs I have encountered. Using a for fee recursive DNS costs a few bucks a year, but adds the same level of reliability to your recursive lookups as outsourcing DNS does for assuring top level availability for your domains / sites.
If you spend a lot of time on the web, you'll be amazed at how much time you were waiting on an ISPs crappy recursive lookup servers as a percentage of your total download time. Often, you'll find that with good recursive DNS lookups, the bandwidth you are paying for appears to be much greater than you had previously thought!