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Re: [cobalt-users] see a virtual site before nameservers are changed to it



Gerald Waugh wrote:

> That is elegant.

Not as elegant as you'd like ...

> I happen to be in my data center, and we use our Internet nameservers for the
> work stations so we never had a problem with new sites.
> I never thought of suggesting such use to others, for esolving new sites.
> I would think your clients could add your DNS server in their list of
> nameservers.
> You can put in more than one in windows (I think) been a while since I used M$

Your local resolver (the one in your PC at home) won't check a second
nameserver unless the first one doesn't answer.  If the first one
answers with "no such domain" it will NOT check another.

Do you really want your RaQs to operate as DNS servers for all your
customer's resolving?  We don't.

Jeff
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