On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 12:08:56AM -0500, Brian Kifiak wrote:
> 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"?
Actually your web server is most of the time co located at a big provider
(vhost) and your backup MX servers are also located with your provider. So
even if your office has no ip connection does not mean that nobody will use
your DNS.
Greetings
Bernd
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