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Subject: Re: DNS and e-mail.
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Hi,

	Well, since it's doing exactly what it should be, I shouldn't
complain about it. Thanks for explaining it to me.

Regards
Willem Brown

Doug Barton wrote:
> 
> Willem Brown wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >         I'm running a secondary DNS for my domain which is
> > hosted by Granitecanyon. The idea was that whenever the two
> > main DNS servers are unavailable that mine will be used so
> > I don't get cut off from the world completely.
> 
>         unfortunately, DNS does not work that way.
> 
> >         What then causes my DNS to be queried when I send an
> > e-mail to the list? Any ideas?
> 
>         The fact that you have it listed in the NS records for your domain. The
> terms "primary" and "secondary" are only relative to where you update
> the files. Secondary (or slave) nameservers pick up their updates from
> the primary or master nameservers. Every nameserver listed in the NS
> records will be queried on a more or less equal basis. You see an
> increase in traffic because the overall number of queries for your
> domain has gone up.
> 
>         The only way to resolve this problem is to remove your nameserver from
> the NS records.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Doug
> --
>         "Live free or die"
>                 - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire
> 
>         Do YOU Yahoo!?

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