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

["Gerald Waugh" <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>]

> 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.
>Don Wrote;
> 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.

This is true I use http://realdns.com  dns.realdns.com and ns.realdns.com and
the nameserver IP address are consecutive,
one is located in Colorado, the other is in Canada.
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