Re: [cobalt-users] DNS problems

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Simplest solution here is to reverse things. Change the registration
> so that your Qube is the primary and the ISP is the secondary; while
> this may slow things down to the requester by about 1/100 of a second,
> you'll get total control of your DNS and the secondary (at the ISP)
> will update itself and cover for you if the Qube is down.

You can list your domain with your registrar as:
  primary DNS: your ISP's server
  secondary DNS: your cobalt server

And yet still use your cobalt server as your "master" server and tell
your isp to set up as a "slave" server, reading data off of your
"master".

There's no reason why I primary has to be a master or a secondary has to
be a slave.  It's common usage, and causes a lot of confusion, but
they're completely independing concepts.

If you're ISP slaves to your master, and everyone in the world still
looks at your ISP as the primary, you've got the best of all worlds.

Jeff (who really should write "DNS for Dummies")
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