--On Wednesday, 20 September, 2000 00:08 -0500 Brian Kifiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It's also a bad idea to put both of your nameservers on the same network,
>
> That's not an absolute truth. It's quite common for small to medium
> sized networks to only have one point of presence. If that point
> goes down it doesn't matter that your DNS doesn't work -- everything
> it resolves is offline anyway. Is it really worth the extra cost to
> setup completely independant nameservers so that a user would get a
> "could not find hostname" error instead of "network unreachable"?
having an MX record or even an A record to point to a mail server
might be worth having around during transient outages...
-paul
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