[59565] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Tertiary or 2nd Secondary DNS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Tue Jul 8 20:13:48 2003
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 20:13:14 -0400
From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
To: "up@3.am" <up@3.am>, "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0307081618050.36704-100000@richard2.pil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
--On Tuesday, July 8, 2003 4:22 PM -0400 "up@3.am" <up@3.am> wrote:
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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?
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.
