Quick question about Host records

[Kevin Darcy]

The whole point of having multiple NS'es is for redundancy, if they're the
same IP address, what kind of redundancy is that?

I don't think it'll work anyway; I'm pretty sure that NSI "host records" need
to have *unique* addresses. Even if it does work, it SHOULDN'T.


- Kevin

Bill Moseley wrote:

> I'm running ns1.hank.org and ns2.hank.org.
>
> I want to register a new domain name, example.com, and will be using the
> ns1.hank.org and ns2.hank.org machines to serve the zone.
>
> Is there any reason I can't specify ns1.example.com and ns2.example.com as
> example.com's name servers and just have ns1.example.com and ns1.hank.org
> have the same IP number?  In other words, any reason (in NSI terms) that
> two different "host records" can't have the same IP number?
>
> The only issue is that a reverse lookup will only show the PTR name I pick,
> but I don't care about that.
>
> In other words, example.com will be virtual hosted on the same machine as
> hank.org, yet I'd like "dig example.com ns" to return ns1.example.com and
> ns2.example.com instead of ns1.hank.org and ns2.hank.org.
>
> I don't see any problems, but I'm asking just in case.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill Moseley
> mailto:moseley at hank.org