Re: [Tertiary or 2nd Secondary DNS?]

2003-07-08 Thread Joshua Sahala

i personally point all of my 'secondary' servers at theirs for the
'primary' or master.  having my box slave off another of my boxes that
is a slave is sort of like rip routing - dns by rumour anyone...
i prefer this method because then they are the 'only ones' who can
screw up the zones...(not really, but it takes once piece out of the
chain and makes troubleshooting easier for me)
ymmv

/joshua

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 This question might be more suitable for inet-access, but it's down, so
 I'm resending here:
 
 Silly question:
 
 If you have a customer who is doing their own primary DNS, but you are
 doing their secondary DNS (on 2 of your name servers) for them, is it
 better practice on your 2nd DNS server to xfer the zones directly from the
 customer's primary DNS server (a second secondary DNS server) or xfer it
 from your first server (the customer's secondary server) doing true
 tertiary DNS?  Or should the tertiary use multiple masters?
 
 Thinking about rewriting the scripts a bit...
 
 thanks,
 
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Re: Tertiary or 2nd Secondary DNS?

2003-07-08 Thread John Payne


--On Tuesday, July 8, 2003 4:22 PM -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



This question might be more suitable for inet-access, but it's down, so
I'm resending here:
Silly question:

If you have a customer who is doing their own primary DNS, but you are
doing their secondary DNS (on 2 of your name servers) for them, is it
better practice on your 2nd DNS server to xfer the zones directly from the
customer's primary DNS server (a second secondary DNS server) or xfer it
from your first server (the customer's secondary server) doing true
tertiary DNS?  Or should the tertiary use multiple masters?
My hobbiest setup pulls from multiple masters.  Not much point having 
multiple
servers if a little network partitioning (which happens all too often) will 
stop your servers from communicating.