> 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. _______________________________________________ BSDCert mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert
