[cobalt-users] Re: Secondary DNS

[Jay Tingley <jayt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

[ Jeff Lasman writes... ]

> 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.

But this isn't any different unless you both setup your
secondary DNS records for each other on each server.

Most (but not all) commercial solutions require that you use
their secondary DNS server, ie:

  ns1.yourdomain.com and ns2.ispdomain.com

> 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.

My point was it doesn't look as professional (or as credible)
to have ns1.yourdomain.com and then ns2.ispdomain.com. Yes,
WHOIS lookups return all of the nameservers listed, but more
often than not most domains only list 2 nameservers.
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