Zone file question

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9oajim$e8j at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Kris McElroy <kmcelroy at duracom.net> wrote:
>@       IN      SOA     abcd.abe.com. (
>                        199609206       ; serial, todays date + todays =serial #
>                        8H              ; refresh, seconds
>                        2H              ; retry, seconds
>                        4W              ; expire, seconds
>                        1D )            ; minimum, seconds
>   @             NS      land-5.com.
>  @              NS      ns2.psi.net.

Get rid of the initial whitespace on those last two lines.  An indented
line is taken to be an additional record for the name defined on the
previous line.

>IN the above example my question is the @ NS land-5.com is the Primary
>and @ NS ns2.psi.net is the Secondary  Can you have a @ NS 
>ns3.domain.com?  How many can you have.  I am assuming that I could add a
>third one for a tertiary DNS server, which would be a slave form the
>master land-5.com???

You can have as many nameservers as you want.

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