Why does INTERNIC require two nameservers?
Igmar Palsenberg
maillist at chello.nl
Sat Sep 16 15:16:46 UTC 2000
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, PostNoEmail wrote:
> Clearly the answer is to provide redundancy in case one server fails. But,
> increasingly I see nameserver pairs differing by one IP address. Obviously
> they are on the same subnet, and I suspect many are just aliases for the
> same machine!
A lot do, yes..
>
> So much for redundancy! Indeed, many hosting services recommend
> customers purchase two IPs just so they can tell INTERNIC they have
> two nameservers!
> Questions:
>
> How common is this?
Very common
> Why is it tolerated?
No idea.. It's comming with all registry services I've seen.
Igmar
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