silly newbie question

[Barry Margolin]

In article <D9AT4.43523$Ja5.279254 at news1.crdva1.bc.home.com>,
Y Ahn <yoonwhan at home.com> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I am trying to learn how DNS works in the Net.  For the sake of argument,
>let's suppose there is a LAN connected to the Net through an ISP.  The LAN
>has (1) a Web server that serves up html pages to the general public on the
>Net and (2) PCs that access the Net with Web browsers.  Now my questions: Do
>I need two different DNS servers for (1) and (2)?  Or can I use just one DNS
>server for both purposes?

Small organizations that run their own DNS servers, and many ISPs, often
use the same server for both.  Some large ISPs provide different servers
for the two purposes: authoritative service for hosted domains, and caching
service for client lookups.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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