Re: DNS - Primary / Secondary on one machine

Davide Bianchi wrote:
On 2006-06-28, Wayne <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Question: Can one machine act as both the primary and secondary DNS
for a domain?

Sure he can, but what's the point of doing so? The idea of having two
DNSes is because if the first is down the second can take up the job,
if
both are on the same system... the primary DNS is the only mandatory
one, then you can have as many as you like.

You put the second one on a different IP address with a different network
card, so if you lose one connection you still have the other. You also use
it to test out your setups, until you can get a second DNS server.


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