DNS server on multisite environment?

[Mark Andrews]

> Guys,
> 
> We have two sites that are connected together and now
> we need a DNS solution installed for name resolution
> and centralised maintenance.
> 
> Everyone should be able to resolve the host names even
> if the host lives on the remote site.
> If one of the sites goes down than the name resolution
> still should work.

	All sites need local copies of the zones.
 
> But it would be very handy just to edit the DNS file
> on a dedicated server each time and the change would
> be distributed to the others automatically.

	That's normal behaviour of the DNS.

> And we also need a fault-tolerant solution if the
> remote site and the local primary server goes down,
> the name resolution still has to work.

	Well that means you need 2 servers at each
	site each with copies of the zones.
 
> I'm just wondering now how we should plan the DNS
> servers to achieve all of these requirements.
> 
> Sorry for the confusing explanation...
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> John
> 
> 
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