On Dec 12 2011, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
I suspect that most, if not all registries will require you to provide at least 2 name servers, because this is highly recommended in one of the RFCs (forget which one now).
This seems to go right back to RFC 882 (November 1983): | The domain must provide redundant (i.e., two or more) name servers | to provide the name to address resolution service. These name | servers must be accessible from outside the domain (as well as | inside) and must resolve names for at least all the hosts in the | domain. RFC 1035 (November 1987) just mentions this in section 2.1 "Overview": | Different parts of the domain space are stored in different name | servers, although a particular data item will be stored redundantly | in two or more name servers. while RFC 2182 (July 1997), which I suspect is the one Anand had in mind, says in section 5 "How many secondaries?": | The DNS specification and domain name registration rules require at | least two servers for every zone. before going on to recommend more than two in most cases. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
