Primary DNS failover

Johnny Fribert Lauridsen jlaurids at cisco.com
Tue Apr 11 20:36:11 UTC 2000


Joe,
here is a good starting point:
http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS2000/library/resources/reskit/samplechapters/cncf/cncf_imp_orav.asp
Johnny


At 16:18 11/04/2000 -0400, Joseph S D Yao wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 05:18:34PM -0800, Michael Voight wrote:
> > Microsoft uses multimaster. (I think that's the name)
> > Obviously, not being standards based, you can't mix it with a UNIX
> > primary for the same domain. 
>
>Over the last month, this has been mentioned numerous times by two
>people, with no explanation of what it is.  Michael, what is this
>"multimaster" capability?  What does it provide over and above the BIND
>capability of multiple equivalent name servers that are "failed over"
>to automatically when any are down?  If it distributes the database of
>a SINGLE domain over multiple servers, how does it avoid requiring
>searching ALL servers before declaring that a given name does or does
>not exist, and all the other problems that have been mentioned before?
>
>I do have to admit that Microsoft's desire to extend a standard is
>occasionally for the purpose of giving a legitimate capability that is
>not otherwise available.  But often it is solely to lock in the user -
>I suspect they would have embraced EBCDIC if they had thought they
>could get away with it.  ;->
>
>Thanks.
>
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>Joe Yao                         jsdy at cospo.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
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