True DNS Backup

[Mike]

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"Chris Buxton" <cbuxton at menandmice.com> wrote in message 
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> It doesn't matter how you describe them to your domain registrar. They
> simply enter them as NS records into the parent zone - a collection of
> equivalent servers, with no indication of which is "primary" and which
> are otherwise.
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> On Feb 22, 2008, at 9:39 AM, Mike wrote:
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>> Should both DNS servers be defined to the internic as primary dns
>> servers or
>> can I specify dns1 as primary and dns2 as secondar?
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>> "Chris Buxton" <cbuxton at menandmice.com> wrote in message
>> news:fplp2q$2o8j$1 at sf1.isc.org...
>>> 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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