1st & 2nd Nameservers

[Bill Larson]

There is no distinction between master and slave (primary and secondary) 
name servers in relation to a DNS lookup.  A slave name server is NOT a
failover site for when the primary is down.

You need to make sure that your master and slave server provides the
same information.  This is done automatically when you modify the
zone information on the master AND increment the serial number.  This
uses the NOTIFY provision of the DNS protocol.

Bill Larson

> I have two name servers running DNS.  I am hosting several web sites for
> friends and family.  I have discovered (because I had a misconfiguration in
> the secondary name server) that when people go to one of  my web sites it is
> the secondary name server that is searched first - and since there was an
> error, the site was not reachable.  The primary name server is searched when
> you attempt to go to all other of the web sites.  I suppose this is good
> because it pointed out to me that I had an error in the secondary - but why
> are the root records (I assume) for that one web site pointing to my
> secondary name server as if it were the primary?  how do I fix it?  (If you
> check whois on Networksolutions the name servers appear in the correct
> order.  But, when I run a command line "whois" from a linux box that I also
> have, it reports that the web site has only one name server and it is the
> secondary).
> 
> I apologize if this is not the correct news group for this posting.  Please
> redirect me if I have selected it in error.
> 
> Thanks, RAB
> rab at uslex.net
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