Re: [cobalt-developers] Re: Secondary DNS

[Norbert Bollow <nb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> First the reason we use two name servers (a name server is the machine that
> tells the inquiring party what your IP number is) was because of the
> original government perchent for redundancy.  And at the early stages of
> the popular 'browsers' for brevity or by happen-chance failed to be able to
> look for a secondary Name Server IP number, and hence many in our industry
> (I am an IPP) tended to ignore the Secondary Name Server.

Sounds like you're confusing two things here. The question
whether a browser is able to properly work with redundant local
nameservers is entirely unrelated to the fact that things will
work if the remote domain that it is trying to access has a
non-responding primary nameserver but a working secondary
nameserver, or vice versa.

Warm greetings, Norbert.


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