From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Aug 19 16:07:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA11963 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 16:07:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.8.15.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA11958 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 16:07:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA09366; Wed, 20 Aug 1997 09:07:12 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 09:07:12 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: webmaster@Online-Site-Services.com cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.2 DNS question In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19970819191407.002cb734@Online-Site-Services.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 19 Aug 1997 webmaster@Online-Site-Services.com wrote: > Q: I have just discoverd that my carrier has decided not to do Secondary DNS > as promised. Can I configure a single FreeBSD 2.2.2 DNS server to be > configured as two DNS machines as listed below? > > Primary DNS: ns1.domain.net 201.202.99.1 > Secondary DNS: ns2.domain.net 201.202.99.2 > > I know this is not a great idea, this would be a temporary setup until I > could get a second FreeBSD 2.2.2 DNS server built. Bad, Bad, Bad. What you *should* be asking is "Can anyone secondary my domains, please". For preference, you should use two secondaries where possible. I'll secondary domains for you if their use is not too high, but I pay $0.19 per MB of traffic, so I have to be a little careful with what I give away. I won't secondary netscape.com or yahoo.com :-) Danny /* Daniel O'Callaghan */ /* HiLink Internet danny@hilink.com.au */ /* FreeBSD - works hard, plays hard... danny@freebsd.org */