Re: [cobalt-users] DNS

["Jason Sikorski" <jsikorski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've thought about the very same thing in the past, but I've never run
across a problem only having one nameserver in the SOA.

If you do decide, however, to add your secondary nameserver to each zone
file, you don't need to worry about creating slave records since both
"nameservers" are running off the same daemon.  You really only need to have
slave records when the nameservers are located on different servers.  It
automates replication of the zone files.

In regards to your browser errors: As long as both the IP addresses for your
authoritative nameservers are active, you shouldn't be getting any errors.

Sorry, I don't know of a FAQ that explains this.  I would recommend
O'Reilly's book on "DNS & BIND" if you would like to learn more.

--
Jason Sikorski
jsikorski@xxxxxxxxxxxx


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Carey" <ozbcoz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 7:39 AM
Subject: [cobalt-users] DNS


> Hi,
> I have a single RAQ3. I have a primary nameserver web.ozdns.net. I have a
> secondary nameserver web2.ozdns.net . If I define my domains they are
> written, as I understand it against web.ozdns.net. If I update my SOA for
a
> domain and tell it that it has a secondary nameserver of web2.ozdns.net
and
> don't do anything to setup a secondary entry am I giving myself a
potential
> problem.
>
> I have noticed a lot of unable to contact web server type errors that go
> away on a refresh on a domain that is setup this way. Could this be as a
> result of the browser attempting to use the secondary  name server and
> finding no entries ?
>
> If this is so then is there a FAQ somewhere that will show me how to set
up
> web2.ozdns.net to resolve these names.
>
> I know that the secondary should be on a sep machine and soon, I hope,
they
> will be - but for the next few months they will need to share
>
> cheers
>
> Jim Carey
>
>
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