On Tue, 29 May 2001, John Payne wrote:
> er, no... I want multiple machines with one name. Someone else wanted
> multiple names for one IP addreess.
Okay, maybe I'm just not tracking here.
Can someone explain to me why either of these things are necessary?
The only reason I can come up with that explains multiple names to one IP
address is marketing crap, i.e. the customer wants to have
ns1.customer.com in their whois entry so it looks like they have someone
who knows what they are doing on site instead of like they are a one
person operation that is hosted at some rent-a-site-on-a-Cobalt facility.
That is all well and good, but not really the point of the SRS, is it?
Or am I missing a valid technical reason for this?
Multiple IPs per host, now that one I don't get at all. Since you can
define way more nameservers for a domain than could ever be necessary for
redundancy (I know it is at least eight), why not just create separate
host entries for each IP? Seems more flexible and scalable that way to
me, though maybe it requires a little more attention to administer
changes.
I guess I am missing the point here, too. Help?
--
...Craig
