Tim: >> The internet, at large, will always use your primary server. If it >> can't, it'll try your secondary server.
Ed Greshko: > I'm not certain what you mean by the use of "primary" in that > statement. But I don't think it is actually accurate in any event. It's probably an out-of-date concept, now. When I registered my domain, years ago, they referred to their name servers as primary and secondary. Most services will have several DNS servers. They may consider one of theirs the best, since for some reason it's faster, or bigger, or runs on better hardware if they didn't build identical systems, or they configure their network to favour it. ISPs were like that. They'd tell you to use /this/ one preferentially. Or, it could be that what they call their "primary" one is the one that you're allowed to enter your data into, and the other(s) will extract your data from their main one. In any case, the message really is that you should have multiple DNS servers, ones that you don't have to run yourself. It was always recommended that you have at least two. But you often see some major sites will have at least four name servers. Though I've seen a few comments that there's little point in having massive redundancy in answer DNS queries about you, but only one webserver hosting your site. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.25.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Apr 28 21:49:45 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
