Fw: two name servers on one Raq?

[Adam Lang]

Just curious, why do you need a second name server?

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: ""Chris" <chris neary at btinternet.com" <removethis at uunet.uu.net>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.dns.bind
To: <comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 11:49 AM
Subject: two name servers on one Raq?


> Hi
>
> I need to run two name servers on one Cobalt Raq4. I know "this doesn't
make
> sense" but until I can afford another machine to run a secondary, I'm
> stumped. My network provider will offer secondary services but wants to
> charge me £15 per domain to set the zones on their server as slaves to my
> primary. (I have over 100 domains - £1500! way to much cash to hand over
to
> them)
>
> I'm using Bind 8 and running the standard Cobalt set-up named service on
> it's first network port. I understand that I can set-up a second named
> service on my Raq's second network port but I'm a little unclear how to
> configure Bind to do it.
>
> Does anyone know of a worked example "out there" for achieving this? I own
> the DNS bible (god bless Paul and Cricket) and have searched high and low
on
> the net to no avail for info on how to do this.
>
> I wonder if I could alias ns2.nameserver.co.uk to ns1.realnameserver.co.uk
> as an alternative? But then would I need to register ns2.nameserver.co.uk
> with NetSol for example and what IP would I use, the same as
> ns1.realnameserver.co.uk?
>
> If anyone can help, I'd be much obliged.
>
> Chris
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