Secondary Name Server definition

[Kevin Darcy]

What an awfully selfish point of view: "I don't care if every nameserver in the
world is constantly retrying their queries to my dead machine because I didn't
bother providing any redundancy". I'd like to think that DNS isn't just a
protocol, but also a *community*. One of the community rules is that you make
your nameservice *robust*. Otherwise you're just pissing in the pool.


- Kevin

Adrian Stovall wrote:

>         You can assign two IP addresses to your single machine (known as IP
> aliasing, or virtual IP addressing).  If you have a reserved range of IP's,
> I'm assuming that either a).  you plan on adding more machines to your
> network (in which case, I would advise you to set one aside as a secondary
> DNS server) or b). you plan on your web server also answering DNS requests,
> in which case, redundant DNS machines won't matter...if the site's down, the
> DNS is probably down too.
>
>         In situation a, IP aliasing doesn't make much sense, in situation b,
> it won't be any worse than if your web server crashes.
>
>         What operating system are you planning on using?  That little bit of
> info will go a long way towards my giving a more informative answer.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Darcy [mailto:kcd at daimlerchrysler.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 4:22 PM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
> Subject: Re: Secondary Name Server definition
>
> You should arrange for someone to be a slave for your domain. There are
> outfits
> that will do this for a fee.
>
> - Kevin
>
> Seb wrote:
>
> > Hello all
> > I have set up a server, I have reserved a range of IPs and I an going to
> get
> > my server plugged to the internet and when I want to register my domain
> > name, it ask me for a Primary Name Server which is the IP of my server,
> > until there that's cool but it also ask me for at least one Secondary Name
> > Server, which can not be the same IP than the primary, I udnerstand that,
> > but I don't know what to do...? I have one server only and it has one IP
> of
> > course so what should I put as a secondary name server ?
> > Thank you,
> > -Aur