From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Aug 19 17:29:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA16519 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 17:29:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from DNS.Lamb.net (root@DNS.Lamb.net [207.90.181.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA16508 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 17:29:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by DNS.Lamb.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id RAA17337; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 17:29:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.Alameda.net(207.90.181.2) via SMTP by DNS.Lamb.net, id smtpd017334; Tue Aug 19 17:29:39 1997 Received: (from ulf@localhost) by Gatekeeper.Alameda.net (8.8.6/8.7.6) id RAA12490; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 17:29:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Ulf Zimmermann Message-Id: <199708200029.RAA12490@Gatekeeper.Alameda.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.2 DNS question In-Reply-To: from Daniel O'Callaghan at "Aug 20, 97 09:07:12 am" To: danny@panda.hilink.com.au (Daniel O'Callaghan) Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 17:29:35 -0700 (PDT) Cc: webmaster@Online-Site-Services.com, isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 */ > > > I provide secondary DNS for people, mostly inclusive in some other package, but in some cases also just the DNS. For low volume DNS I just do like $15/year, mainly for setting it up. -- Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073