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Date:      Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:45:19 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        John Morgan Salomon <john@zog.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BIND 9
Message-ID:  <3F1ED7BF.6050204@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <3F1ED7C5.5000500@zog.net>
References:  <8AE4DA75-BCC1-11D7-9DA1-000A957FF666@pacbell.net> <87d6g1zwt7.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> <1058980661.3981.0.camel@jupiter.main.gaddis.org> <3F1ED7C5.5000500@zog.net>

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John Morgan Salomon wrote:
> Unless you have a different instances listening on different interfaces/IPs
> as master/slave for the same domain if you only have one machine--some
> registrars will not permit master & slave on the same IP.
> Or can BIND9 handle this in a single instance?

The requirement to have seperate nameservers is for redundancy: you are expected 
to actually have two real, seperate machines on two different IP addresses, so 
that DNS continues to work even if one nameserver fails.

-- 
-Chuck



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