running master, slave on the same computer

Max Nokhrin mno11 at lycos.com
Thu Jul 29 02:07:36 UTC 2004


Yep, that's correct. At present, I only have 1 box available, so I 
cannot physically have two DNS servers. As soon as I am able to, I will 
get the slave up and runnings.

Thanks for the responses!

Max

Barry Margolin wrote:

> In article <ce9a6a$j6t$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Steve Friedl <steve at unixwiz.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:23:24PM +0000, phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu wrote:
>>
>>>Max Nokhrin <mno11 at lycos.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>>For now, I think it will be OK if I have only 1 DNS server. The system 
>>>>is only running one domain, so if it fails, not too much of a deal. But 
>>>>thank you for the recommendations.
>>>
>>>You are wrong. There is a huge difference in "some nameservers cannot
>>>be reached" and "no nameservers can be reached".
>>
>>It's not *always* a huge difference. If the nameserver describes resources
>>that go down when the nameserver does (say, at the end of a T1 line),
>>then in practice there is not much difference between "I can't find
>>www.example.com" and "I can't reach www.example.com's IP address".
> 
> 
> And it also seemed from his original post that this is just a temporary 
> setup.  Once he gets his service moved to the new data center, I think 
> he plans on getting the DNS set up properly.
> 


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