running master, slave on the same computer

[Jonathan de Boyne Pollard]

SF> It's not *always* a huge difference. If the nameserver describes
SF> resources that go down when the nameserver does (say, at the end
SF> of a T1 line), then in practice there is not much difference between
SF> "I can't find www.example.com" and "I can't reach
SF> www.example.com's IP address".

Yes, there is.  Read what Andy Dustman said when this subject was 
discussed in depth on the "djbdns" mailing list in 2001-01 after the 
events that hit Microsoft that month.

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