[WSBARP] Off Topic For Those Firms With Firm Email Addresses

[Kary Krismer]

I don't know if any of you with firm email addresses had a 48+ hour 
outage this weekend due to the Enom outage, but let me tell you it 
wasn't fun.

Even if you were not affected though here's a valuable tip I learned.  I 
had no idea that my domain registrar (Enom) was also my email DNS 
provider.  It never even occurred to me that email needs DNS, although 
that's sort of obvious.  Having both through one company is apparently a 
mistake made by a lot of people, including system administrators.  They 
should be separate companies.  Otherwise you may have DNS issues and not 
be able to change your DNS settings (the situation I was in).

I have since moved my DNS over to a company called Cloudflare. It was 
simple and easy to do.  So you might want to check up on your settings.

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Kary L. Krismer
206 723-2148