running master, slave on the same computer

[Barry Margolin]

In article <ce9a6a$j6t$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Steve Friedl <steve at unixwiz.net> 
wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:23:24PM +0000, phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu wrote:
> > Max Nokhrin <mno11 at lycos.com> wrote:
> > > Thanks,
> > 
> > > For now, I think it will be OK if I have only 1 DNS server. The system 
> > > is only running one domain, so if it fails, not too much of a deal. But 
> > > thank you for the recommendations.
> > 
> > You are wrong. There is a huge difference in "some nameservers cannot
> > be reached" and "no nameservers can be reached".
> 
> It's not *always* a huge difference. If the nameserver describes resources
> that go down when the nameserver does (say, at the end of a T1 line),
> then in practice there is not much difference between "I can't find
> www.example.com" and "I can't reach www.example.com's IP address".

And it also seemed from his original post that this is just a temporary 
setup.  Once he gets his service moved to the new data center, I think 
he plans on getting the DNS set up properly.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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