> Edwin Mons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > ...and, ofcourse, any certified admin of any kind should 
> know that it is
> > not advised to run your pri and secondary nameservers from 
> the same subnet.
> 
> This is a bit off topic, but ...
> 
> This argument falls in to the same class as the secondary MX 
> argument (IMHO).
> 
> If there is only 1 WWW server, and it's on the same subnet as 
> the DNS server,
> then what good does a DNS server on a different subnet do?  
> If the network
> that the WWW server is on goes down, the system is still 
> inaccessable, even
> if the DNS resolves.
> 
> I'm not the only one who holds this opinion, but it does seem 
> like a lot of
> folks disagree on this point.
>

Getting an IP address at least lets you know the domain is existing
albeit crippled.  And likely there would be a secondary MX server that
could collect e-mail to forward on when the primary mail server came
back online.  
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