primary and secondary DNS on the same machine

[Marc S. Bragg]

Hi


I have been in the process of trying to do exactly the same thing, except,
I'm going to use the same ip number since it's only one machine. Any help
you get, let's share.

Thanx

Marc

Dave wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> Firstly, I am new here and apoligies if I have posted this to the wrong
> group.
>
> I am planning on getting a server co-located that will provide basic
> hosting services for clients.  All clients will have a domain name for
> their websites and I intend to use my own name server with the name
> server software running on the same computer as the web server.  Hence,
> if my name server was to go down there would be no need for a secondry
> name server as the web server would be down as well. Now for my
> question...
>
> If I have two IP addresses pointing at the same machine is it possible
> to use the same machine for a primary and secondry name server for all
> the domains I will host? Is it reccomended to do this?
>
> The other alternative is to use the company that is providing the co-
> location's name server for a secondary server but this will look less
> professional as on the whois out put they will see:
> ns0.<my domain> and dns.<co-location providor>
> rather than...
> ns0.<my domain> and ns1.<my domain>
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
>
> --
> Please reply to the group.

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