Search Again: Re: Secondary DNS & Systems Redundancy From: Jim Turney Date: Sunday, May 11, 1997 Time: 4:58:00 pm >Does such a proposal sound feasible from a technical and QuickDNS licensing >standpoint? The main hassle would seem to be changing secondary assignments >at the InterNIC for all the affected domains. You are correct to point out the value of name and mail server secondaries on networks *completely* outside your own, and using the 'buddy' system among QDNSPro users. Look.net buddies with MediacomInc.com. Jim Logios, the network administrator at MediacomInc.com had a great idea to make the buddy system very easy to use. Both of us have two QDNSPro servers running, one for primary data files of our own and secondary files from the other network. The other server handles only our own secondary files. The ease of this arrangement is that neither of us has to keyboard any data for the other (we both frequently add new domains). We email an attachment of our QDNSPro Secondary file, the one used with our own secondary QDNSPro server. The recepient simply places this Secondary file in their primary QDNSPro server's folder and selects Restart from the File menu. We also secondary each other's mailhosts (both of us use two AIMS/EIMS servers, one for primary and one set up for secondary). If one of our networks has a failure anywhere from the backbone to our mailhost, mail is held by the other's secondary mailhost until a frequently attempted connection is successful. Bottom line - secondaries on another, completely separate, network is best and working with another QDNSPro user makes it much easier to accomplish. Jim Turney http://Look.net (703) 550-7565 voice Webmaster http://ListServe.com (703) 339-5012 fax Whole Systems Design, Inc. http://ShoppingCarts.com (888) LookNet sales Fairfax County, Virginia http://ThreadedDiscussion.com

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