Comments on: Setting up DNS on a Linux Dedicated Server – Part 2

By: JASON!

JASON! — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:31:55 +0000

By: WPBlog Shop

WPBlog Shop — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:03:28 +0000

1) I’m not sure why you think you have to pay $10,000s for realtime sync software; that’s what zone transfers and ntp are for. In any case the chances of having a request whose answer will change in increments so frequesnt that you suggest might be necessary is not realistic (especially given a guaranteed minimum 1 second cache time for ANY DNS response)

By: AsakuraYoh

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:12:00 +0000

3) Putting two nameservers on the SAME machine is completely useless and never a good idea, for the reason I mentioned above. If you have one machine, then use some external DNS host for your backup. They’re a dime a dozon, with many perfectly capable multi-homed free solutions out there.

By: Free Blog

Free Blog — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:30:11 +0000

dns doesn’t work like the way you think it does. If you had ns1 on one server and ns2 on another, it would load whichever nameserver loads fastest. there is no rhyme or reason to which NS will load first or second. So, if you had enough money to afford 2 boxes + realtime sync software ($10000’s of $) then you can do what you’re proposing. Otherwise, registrars require you to register more than one ns so you need to setup 2 nameservers on the same server.

By: Free Blog

Free Blog — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:58:30 +0000

If you want the quck’n'easy “poor mans” way, just use your registrar’s DNS service. 90% of registrars today give you an extremely decent DNS service included with your domain

By: Wordpress

Wordpress — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:08:30 +0000

2) I didn’t mean to imply that ns1 will always be queried before ns2 (most resolver implementations will query ns1 first, but as you correctly pointed out, that’s not guaranteed). The point was to have redundancy (which is why the resolvers will also usually put out queries in pairs, just in case one query times out, as suggested by RFC 1034)

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