Re: [cobalt-users] Configuring Secondary DNS...

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Scott Phillips wrote:

> secondary DNS for the network via Control Panel > DNS > Parameters > Add
> Secondary..., I receive the following message:
> 
> *Domain mydomain.com is already defined*

You probably mispercieve what this does, you are trying to tell the raq to
be a secondary nameserver for the domain name, but you have already told
it to be a primary nameserver for the domain. Generally the secondary
would be on some other machine and you would tell that machine to be a
secondary this way....

If you are just trying to make the domain point to it's primary and
secondary nameservers, you need matching NS records for each...(That
agree with what you used registering the domain)

If you are trying to be cheap and use the same machine to pretend to be
both primary and secondary at the same time, just add the 2 NS records and
leave it be, as it will then really just be 2 primary nameservers at
different addresses, which is sort of ok....

> Primary and secondary DNS has been added to Network > General Settings. Does
> this setting override all virtual site DNS settings? Or am I simply

No, the network/dns settings are what the machine uses internally when it
has to resolve domain names, they are totally unrelated to the DNS
configuration (other than the fact you might want to use yourself as the
resolver) basiclly, leave these alone for now ;)

Tell us a bit more about what you are *trying* to do and it will help....

gsh