that reason is flawed. i think we all know that the whole "you should
have 2 nameservers in different geographic locations for fail purposes"
ideal is often swept under the carpet.
nsi shouldn't care about my fault tolerance; that's my concern.
there are plenty of ways to network balance 1 ip.
now we're back to there being 0 technical reasons. it's an arbitrary
restriction network solutions has made and is ignorantly enforcing.
-tcl.
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Lynn W. Taylor wrote:
> Sorry for the cross-post, but please post to one list only.
>
> The reason you have two name servers is so that you can turn one off and
> still have one.
>
> Ideally, they'll be widely seperated so that there is no single point of
> failure that will shut both of them down.
>
> I don't know how to do that with just one IP.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tc lewis
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 4:25 PM
> To: Jackie Fong
> Cc: INTERNET@BCN {[EMAIL PROTECTED]}; INTERNET@BCN
> {[EMAIL PROTECTED]}
> Subject: RE: 2+ nameservers sharing 1 ip?
>
> how is it not legal?
>
> while irrelevant, one of the reasons is so all the domains i have using
> nameserver x and nameserver y are effectively both using nameserver x.
> they already are -- i don't see the need to waste ip space and various
> other resources.
>
> -tcl.
>
>
> On Fri, 25 May 2001, Jackie Fong wrote:
>
> > tcl,
> >
> > I don't think it's 'legal' to have two nameservers with the same IP. Why
> > do you want to do that anyway? I don't see any reasons to do this...
> >
> > > the manage client interface (action=manage_nameserversmeservers) doesn't
> > > seem to allow me to create 2 nameservers with the same ip:
> > >
> > > Unable to create nameserver: Registry error, nameserver creation failed
> > > [Attribute value not unique]
> > >
> > > is there any technical reason for this? is this just an extra step of
> > > user error prevention? any way to get around it?
> > >
> > > -tcl.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
