Andrey G. Sergeev (AKA Andris) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 17 Aug 2008 20:25: > > I am curious because I have 3 secondary servers about to be used, 2 > > in the U.S and 1 in the UK, along with the primary NS located here in > > my country, on a small (64k) ISDN line, which can be very congested > > at numerous times 24/7 due to the nature of the business. So, would > > it be more beneficial to have one of the international NS's act as > > primary? If it matters, there is about as much local as international > > traffic connections here, so choosing one ofver another for "best > > usage" would not really matter. > > Assuming that all of your 3 secondaries have a good Internet > connectivity, I suggest you to establish a so-called "an unpublished > primary" scheme. The necessary steps are: > 1. Remove your master server from the NS records in your zone file; > 2. Choose one of your slave servers and put its host name in the SOA > record replacing the master server name;
Why should this be done (step 2)? > 3. Run the zone update process and wait for the new zone version to be > propagated to all of the slaves; > 4. Update the list of the name servers in the parent zone by editing it > at your domain registrar control panel (you need to remove the old master). -- Frank Behrens, Osterwieck, Germany PGP-key 0x5B7C47ED on public servers available.
