Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ3 as primary AND secondary DNS ??

["Gerald Waugh" <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Same question here. The server is in my case just serving one single domain.
So if the server (which is also used as the primary DNS) would not work there
would anyway be no sense in the back-up-DNS (secondary).
>

The diff is that if a browser looks for your site, and no Authoritive Name
Server is found, it tells the user your site does not exist, versus telling the
user that the site does exist, but is not reachable at the moment!

Another point is that although having many nameservers sounds good, it takes
something like 25 seconds for a browser request for a name server to time out
(then look for second server), how many of these timeouts is the user going to
wait for. Therefore, any more than two is probably overkill, how many users are
going to wait minutes for a site (name server) to be found?