Re: [cobalt-users] Re: Primary/Secondary DNS on RaQ3

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jay Tingley wrote:

> As a small company, it is *crucial* to retain your autonomy from
> a larger hosting company. What looks more professional: running
> both DNS servers, or having one run by your co-location company?

There are other options.  You can partner with someone else (perhaps
someone else from this list), and use one IP# on their server to create
ns2.yourdomain.com, and one IP# on your server to create
ns2.hisdomain.com.  Or you can buy a commercial solution.

> The ideal solution is to run your own primary and secondary DNS
> servers on one RaQ3, then have your co-location company run a
> tertiary DNS server. This way, you get the reliability you refer to

You also get an awful long time to wait, since servers take a while to
time out <frown>.

> as well as the autonomy resellers and hosting companies seek (since
> most WHOIS lookups only return 2 DNS servers).

I'm not sure what you mean by this.  It's been my experience that whois
lookups return exactly as many nameservers as the registrar lets you
create.  For example, if Network Solutions allows more than two
nameservers (which it does), a whois for a site created at Network
Solutions will show all the nameserers you've set up for the site when
you registered it.

I'd go for sharing secondary DNS or a commercial solution.
-- 
Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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