On 27 Jan 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: miquel >That means that 50% of the people trying to reach one of those miquel >sites saw an initial timeout of one minute when trying to resolve miquel >a host in one of those domains when they tried to talk to the miquel >non-existant name server.
i never had 1 DNS problem..and never had a single report of any. miquel >If the secondary server is only secondary for your own primary miquel >server and no external domains, there is no need to run 2 instances miquel >off named. You can just run one that responds to queries for both miquel >primary and secondary, since that distinction (prim or sec) doesn't miquel >matter to clients anyway i did have a second dNS but it was not configured as secondary so maybe thats why it worked fine. no zone transfers ever took place until recently though. that and the fact also s if the primary dNS went down chances are 99% of the rest of the services would be down too so it wouldnt do anything :/(web,ftp,mail,radius,etc ..) nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 8:58am up 160 days, 21:05, 1 user, load average: 1.02, 1.05, 1.07
