Primary and Secondary on same machine

[Gary Wardell]

Hi,

Not only that, some registrars (CORE and NSI for instance) won't let you 
create more than one host record that references the same IP.

Why not just setup a secondary at Granite Canyon or DtDns.net and get the 
redundancy.  Or if you want I'll be your secondary for a small fee.

Gary


On Wednesday, May 17, 2000 6:07 PM, Joseph S D Yao 
[SMTP:jsdy at cospo.osis.gov] wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 10:50:46PM +0100, Steve Smith wrote:
> > Could you help us settle an argument. We have a client that has asked 
us to
> > set up both the Primary and Secondary nameservers on the same machine.
> > We've RTFM'd everywhere and see no way of doing it if desirable. Any 
input
> > would be welcome.
> >
> > Steve
>
> (1) You could run them on different virtual IP addresses.
>
> (2) You could run them on different ports.
>
> (3) You could tell the person that the primary and secondary both
> respond on the same IP address and the same port, so he can't tell the
> difference.  This would be TRUE.
>
>
> What madness is this?  Why even bother to have an alternate name server
> on the same machine?  The whole purpose of having more than one name
> server is so that, if one goes down, the other takes over.
>
>
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