Domains and subdomains

[Barry Margolin]

In article <199908061354.JAA14603 at www.fsproduce.com>,
Bennett Samowich  <brs at fsproduce.com> wrote:
>We have delegated sub-domains to our wide area locations.  Is there any
>benefit/drawbacks to having the wide-area locations "xfer" copies of
>subdomains other than its own?  The thought was that the remote name server
>could still resolve some addresses even if the wide-area link went down.

There are two ways to look at this:

1) Yes, you're right, you can do lookups in other departments when the link
is down.  Also, it reduces traffic over the WAN links.

2) So what if you can look up those addresses, you still can't get there if
the WAN link is down.

An intermediate mechanism would be to have the server for your main domain
transfer the subdomains.

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