Re: [cobalt-users] Setting a Seconday DNS Server - Help Please

[Murtuza Topiwalla <thesimspsonfan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey,
i am pretty sure about this...dns is like where ure
name is like say the ip provided for dns1 is down, it
automatically points to the ip provided for dns2...so
if the backup server (dns2) holds a totally different
site for, say, domain.com, when the primary server
(dns1) is rebooted, server fails or whatever, the site
domain.com gets pointed to dns2...its somethin like a
map...
dns however does not do ANY data transfer
automatically by itself. but there are lots of
programs which do this for u. however, i must warn u,
its not easy installing these programs. i mean, my
server has crashed once after installing one of them.
and once bitten twice shy so i never tried it again.
sorry for the long content if i bored ....
murtaza 

> > 
> > I understad that Secondary DNS takes the content
> from the Primary DNS Server
> > Disk instead as from the secondary DNS Server
> Disk. What happens if hard
> > disk in primary fails? From where will secondary
> DNS take content?
> 
> I think you are confused about what DNS does, tho,
> i'm not certain. 
> DNS is responsible for the NAME of your server
> only., it has nothing to do
> with the data, content of web pages, etc. Having a
> secondary nameserver
> means your domain name is copied somewhere else, but
> none of the data is,
> you need something else entirely seperate if you
> want both servers to have
> the same DATA on them.

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