Re: [cobalt-users] Need some help on nameservers

[Dom Latter <d.latter@xxxxxxx>]

Vicky Chandna wrote:
> 
> I have cobalt raq3 server and have created nameservers ns1.mydom.com and
> ns2.mydom.com on it.
> Of the above ns2.mydom.com is non-functional.

Good.  Nameservers are meant to be on separate machines, to give 
some level of redundancy; in fact they should be on entirely separate
networks, to prevent one line failure / power outage / whatever taking 
out both machines.

> I have seen many sites wherein whois shows ns1 and ns2 having two
> consecutive ip's. That means they are setup on the same server.
 
It means nothing of the sort.  What it tells me is that the sysadmin
tends to group IP allocation by machine function, and so is probably
fairly Clueful.