True DNS Backup

[Mike]

Should both DNS servers be defined to the internic as primary dns servers or 
can I specify dns1 as primary and dns2 as secondar?


"Chris Buxton" <cbuxton at menandmice.com> wrote in message 
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> On Feb 21, 2008, at 9:58 PM, Gregory Hicks wrote:
>> If either network provider fails, but the other remains up, the
>> external world will continue to query your servers providing the
>> network does what it is supposed to do and provides routes TO your
>> servers.  They will try one then the other server.  Whichever one
>> provides the 'fastest' (relatively) response time is the one that is
>> actually going to get queried.
>
>
> One point I would add is, all zones must be delegated to all four IP
> addresses for this to work. That generally means giving each name
> server, in this case, two different names, one for each address.
>
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