DNS primary and secondaries

Michael Voight mvoight at cisco.com
Wed Sep 1 01:30:42 UTC 1999


If you are on the secondary, can you query?
If point your client at the secondary only, can you query.

On the windows NT client, if you do an nslookup, you should see it
trying both servers.

Michael

Morgan Sarges wrote:
> 
> I guess I should learn to be ambiguous clearly :)
> 
> The full situation is this:
> 
> primary dns = 63.73.223.69
> secondary = 63.73.223.70
> 
> primary gets blown up;  secondary will not resolve anything.
> 
> I am testing right now to make sure the clients (win95/98/NT) are
> setup/querying the secondary.
> 
> Morgan


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