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    Are you talking about recursive clients failing over?<br>
    <br>
    Or other nameservers trying to talk to yours, non-recursively?<br>
    <br>
    Recursive clients don't use NS records at all and you need to
    approach the failover problem in a completely different way (e.g.
    relying on the client failing over from one resolver IP address to
    another, or implementing an Anycast solution).<br>
    <br>
    If you're talking about nameserver-to-nameserver traffic, then just
    publish multiple NS records for the relevant zone(s) and the
    nameserver-selection algorithm embedded in every known
    iterative-resolver implementation will take care of the
    load-balancing and failover; to summarize, faster-responding
    nameservers will be chosen over slower-responding ones.<br>
    <br>
                                                                       
                                                                       
                                                - Kevin<br>
    <br>
    On 9/16/2011 11:17 AM, babu dheen wrote:
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        <div>Hi,</div>
        <div>    Can anyone let me know how i can resolve the below
          requirement.</div>
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        <div>Requirement:</div>
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        <div>We have two offices. One is main office and another one is
          remote branch office. Now my company client requirement is
          that if main office DNS server is not reachable, all DNS query
          should be sent to branch office DNS server. How this can be
          acheived using BIND?</div>
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        <div>For example, my company mail website is; mail.mycompany.com
          which is pointed as below in ISP name server.</div>
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        <div>mail.mycompany.com<span class="tab">    <span class="tab">    IN<span
                class="tab">    NS<span class="tab">    ns1.mainoffice.com</span></span></span></span></div>
        <div><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span
                  class="tab">mail.mycompany.com<span class="tab">    <span
                      class="tab">    IN<span class="tab">    NS<span
                          class="tab">    ns1.branceoffice.com</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
        <div><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span
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                        class="tab"><span class="tab">  Is the above
                          record is correct or not?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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        <div><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span
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                        class="tab"><span class="tab"> Please suggest.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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        <div><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span
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                        class="tab"><span class="tab">Regards</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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                        class="tab"><span class="tab">papdheen M</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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