Newbie: Info/Advice/Help Please

[Eivind Olsen]

--On 20. november 2001 22:43 +0000 "John \"Newbie\"" 
<error401no at spamlineone.net> wrote:
> Ask them to give me 2 ip's
> Install Bind (or similar)
> Set up ns0.blar.com
> Set up ns1.balr.com
> & I'm done....yes ?

Faking to have two different nameservers is not a good idea. The reason 
most registrars require at least two nameservers for a domain is because of 
redundancy. With your proposed solution, "both" nameservers will be down if 
your server has a problem, or if the co-location company has problems with 
its network etc.

Also, some registrars will notice that your nameservers are probably on the 
same subnet (because it'll most likely get IP-addresses that are close to 
each other).

If you want to deliver DNS-services to customers, you should get someone to 
run secondary DNS-services for you at another location. This can probably 
be provided by many different companies, but I'd like to recommend Nominums 
GNS-service (http://www.nominum.com has information about it).

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Talk To You Later
Eivind Olsen


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> I can then tell ppl (who have domains parked with various companies) to
> "point" their domains to my dns i.e. ns0.blar.com & ns1.blar.com & all
> will be well.
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> Basically I suppose the question is: Can I do all the above with 1 server
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> Thanks in advance
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> Regards
> John
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