RE: FN-FORUM: DNS - Primary and Secondary

date posted 20th September 2003 15:25

No i was considering have a mirror copy of the site

1 site on newhosts with NS.newhost.com pointing at it
1 site on oldhosts with NS.oldhost.com pointing at it


Take it thats not wise then?

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Matt
> Burns
> Sent: 20 September 2003 11:25
> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: DNS - Primary and Secondary
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>
> alex wrote:
>
> > I was about to say the same thing but then I realised that the DNS for
> > oldhosts actually points to the old website!
> > I am not sure about that at all.
>
> Well, obviously both DNS servers need to be told where the new web site
> is. :-)
>
> > If your new website is down then you need something more intelligent
> > like load balancing or some fancy DNS
> > to redirect users to the old system.
>
> I think he's only wanting secondary nameserver DNS, not site DNS, but
> without much information I could be wrong.
>
> > I think both primary and secondary DNS servers should be pointing to the
> > same IP address otherwise
> > you will get some weird behaviour.
>
> Indeed.
>
> Matt
>
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