On 12/4/05, Matan Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> First of all, HTML mail! Yuck.

Heh .. silly gmail defaults. ;)

>
> Back to the point, like DJB said somewhere, having more DNS servers than 
> servers
> actually serving content is kinda useless.
>
> If your DNS server dies, you lose DNS and therefore mail... But if your
> mailserver dies, you still lose mail.
>
> If you have 2 mailservers, 2 DNS servers make sense of course.
>

That's what I was thinking, but somehow it didn't make it to the
keyboard. In my case, DNS certainly handles more than just email, so
if the email box goes offline, I don't want the websites that I'm
authorative for to also go offline, even though there's nothing wrong
with the webserver.

Just another 2c.

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