two NS servers on a single host

[Mark Andrews]

In message <809645.28773.qm at web15601.mail.cnb.yahoo.com>, "Tech W." writes:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a bind host installed. It has two public IP addresses.
> I want to give two NS records for my domain, each NS take each of the IP set 
> in the host.
> 
> more details, the host has two IPs:
> 61.145.121.59
> 211.66.80.59
> 
> surely policy reoute for two nics was enabled.
> 
> I add these info into named.conf:
> 
> mydomain.com.  IN  NS  ns1.mydomain.com.
> mydomain.com.  IN  NS  ns2.mydomain.com.
> 
> ns1.mydomain.com.  IN  A  61.145.121.59
> ns2.mydomain.com.  IN  A  211.66.80.59
> 
> There is only one named run in that host.
> Under this config, does it seem that there are two name servers exist for myd
> omain.com? Is it a right way?
> 
> Thanks.

	The two nameserver rule is to provide redundancy.  Two names
	that refer to the same machine does not provide redundancy.

	Mark
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