Re: Primary and Secondary DNS one 1 server...
In article <cistron.Pine.LNX.4.21.0001270000230.1067-100000@galactica.firetrail.com>,
aphro <nate@firetrail.com> wrote:
>is there a point to this ?
Yes
>just because you have a secondary DNS
>registered with internic doesnt mean you have to have one, i ran w/o a
>secondary DNS for 40+ domains for well over a year.
That means that 50% of the people trying to reach one of those
sites saw an initial timeout of one minute when trying to resolve
a host in one of those domains when they tried to talk to the
non-existant name server.
>the only reason i can see for 2 name servers is incase 1 goes out the
>other is still there, if they are on the same box, this redundancy is
>(almost) gone ..unless there is another reason to have a secondary DNS
>?? i dontk now how you got yer DNS setup.
If the outside world think there are 2 DNS hosts, both of those
hosts should respond to queries.
If the secondary server is only secondary for your own primary
server and no external domains, there is no need to run 2 instances
off named. You can just run one that responds to queries for both
primary and secondary, since that distinction (prim or sec) doesn't
matter to clients anyway
Mike.
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