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

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 22 March 2002 01:18 pm, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> 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.
>

Well, what the hell!
It was late at night, sounded OK to me at the time.

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Gerald Waugh
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