primary&secondary

[John Narron]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Sumith Ail wrote:

> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 04:34:33 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Sumith Ail <sumithail3 at yahoo.com>
> To: bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: primary&secondary
> 
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Well.. I wanna know if its possible to run the primary
> and slave name servers on a single linux box.
> 
> Thanx in advance
> 
> Sumith
> 

There's nothing stopping you from doing this, but it completely
defeats the whole purpose of having 2 or more name servers.  The
whole idea is that if one nameserver fails for whatever reason
(hardware failure, software failure, admin failure, earthquake,
tornado, alien invasion, world coming to an end, etc.), then you
have another nameserver to take over while you get the other one
working again.  See also: redundancy.

  - John

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