Re: [cobalt-users] Digital Nation DNS confusion NEED HELP PLEASE!

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:38 PM 1/9/00  Ky Luong wrote:

> Is there any drawback on running my own DNS service? Just wondering because
> I am new to this (DNS). Still I would like to run my own DNS and love to
> lean new things. Could you please guide me through this.

No drawback at all to running your own DNS.  You should only run one 
nameserver on a given network though.  If you run your primary DNS and 
Digital Nation runs your secondary DNS, then if for any reason connectivity 
to Digital Nation should go down, anyone trying to reach you site will get 
a permanent error, i.e., Unable to resolve name, instead of a temporary 
error, i.e., unable to connect.  Also, email to anyone at your domains will 
be returned as a permanent error, instead of being held by the originating 
server until the connectivity goes back up.

That's why we run multiple DNS servers on multiple networks.  The chances 
of two networks being down at the same time is real, but slight.

Jeff

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