From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Tue May  3 15:33:15 2005
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EFB316A4CE
	for <questions@freebsd.org>; Tue,  3 May 2005 15:33:15 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from de01egw02.freescale.net (de01egw02.freescale.net
	[192.88.165.103])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2635443D67
	for <questions@freebsd.org>; Tue,  3 May 2005 15:33:15 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from Jim.Freeze@freescale.com)
Received: from de01smr01.am.mot.com (de01smr01.freescale.net [10.208.0.31])
	j43FZMj0023445
	for <questions@freebsd.org>; Tue, 3 May 2005 08:35:22 -0700 (MST)
Received: from [10.80.61.36] (opera.am.freescale.net [10.80.61.36])
	by de01smr01.am.mot.com (8.13.1/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j43FaSSM018723
	for <questions@freebsd.org>; Tue, 3 May 2005 10:36:29 -0500 (CDT)
Message-ID: <427799B2.4030704@freescale.com>
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 10:33:06 -0500
From: Jim Freeze <Jim.Freeze@freescale.com>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040920
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: questions@freebsd.org
References: <42768E35.2090706@freescale.com>
	<20050503100739.Q29995@maren.thelosingend.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050503100739.Q29995@maren.thelosingend.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: Re: How does one bootstrap DNS
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 15:33:15 -0000

Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:

> <>[snippage]

> <>I currently only have one computer on my domain, and it provides dns
> lookups for itself (and virtual servers)[1]
>
> [snippage]

> <>[1] One could argue that I should have at least two name servers, 
> but why
> should I need greater redundancy on my name servers, than I have on my
> other services? If my dns is down, so is my mail, and am in the mercy of
> the sender to keep retrying anyway.

Yes, exactly. Is it permissable for ns1 and ns2 to point to the same IP 
address?

Jim