Third level domain names and secondary DNS servers

Michael Voight mvoight at cisco.com
Mon Aug 2 13:53:56 UTC 1999


All info in the secondary DNS server comes from the Primary.
If you add something to the zone file, it will get overwritten.

Michael

Richard McMullen wrote:
> 
>  I use an ISP to host a domain name, with the appropriate
>  internic records pointing to three DNS servers operated by
>  this ISP.
> 
>  A recently installed Apache / Linux server at home is
>  being configured as an alias of my existing domain, but
>  my ISP is not willing to add the new alias to their DNS.
> 
>  The linux box has a static IP address and is used primarily
>  to handle extra web traffic, mail, ftp, and news.
> 
>  I would like to use a third-party public DNS service (such as
>  granitecanyon.com) as a secondary DNS server if it is possible
>  to configure the secondary DNS server to include a record for
>  the new alias without changing the primary DNS server.
> 
>  When the secondary DNS receives updates from the primary DNS,
>  would this overwrite the new alias record?
> 
> Richard McMullen
> mcmullen at netcom.com
> 
>


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