Search Again: Re: Secondary DNS From: Global Homes Webmaster Date: Friday, October 22, 1999 Time: 8:12:00 pm You can have anyone you like provide secondary name service for domains that you control (provided, of course, that the secondaries _know_ that they're supposed to be providing secondary service for those domains). The Domain Name System (DNS) in and of itself has no 'rules' to say who can or cannot provide secondary name service for a given domain. On 10.22.99 at 12:18, Gary Richter wrote: > What are the rules regarding who is allowed to do secondary dns? I > work on, consult, help with a wide range of servers spread out on > various different bandwidth locally. > > All the isp's these various servers are connected to all claim they > must be listed in the internic records as the secondary dns servers. > Most of these are either 8 or 16 ip number ranges. > > What happened was a dns server went south with a type 11 error and > page sentry for what ever reason hung and I was out of town and it > went un corrected for about 36 hrs. I came back to a bunch of upset > people that their sites where no longer reachable. What has happened > in the past and appears to have happened again is that 2 different > isp where not polling the dns servers we control for secondary data > for some time and newer domains were not updated. > > What are the rules for who is allowed to provide secondary? > > Does it have to be controlled by the isp that gave us these 16 numbers? > > Or can we do it ourselves and not screw up the works? > > I am on the digest so a direct response or other questions owuld be > nice if you cc'd me and the list. > > I will admit I am behind on my list reading and if this issue has > been discussed recently and I am hashing it over then I am sorry. > > > =============================================== > Gary Richter > PanaVise Products, Inc. > 7540 Colbert Dr. Reno, Nevada 89511 > Ph: 775.850.2900 Fx: 775.850.2929 > Email: grichter@panavise.com > http://www.panavise.com > =============================================== > Christopher Bort

Messages In This Thread: Secondary DNS by Tony on Apr 26, 1999 at 10:26:00 pm Re: Secondary DNS by Chris Buxton on Apr 27, 1999 at 5:28:00 am Re: Secondary DNS by Global Homes Webmaster on Oct 22, 1999 at 8:12:00 pm Secondary DNS by Gary Richter on Oct 22, 1999 at 8:18:00 pm Re: Secondary DNS by Trevi Media WebMaster on Oct 25, 1999 at 8:25:00 pm Secondary DNS by Suzanne Swift on Feb 19, 2001 at 4:21:14 pm Re: Secondary DNS by Men & Mice Support on Feb 19, 2001 at 4:32:54 pm Re: Secondary DNS by W Allan Edwards on Feb 19, 2001 at 4:44:59 pm Secondary Dns by Jody McAlister on Aug 1, 2001 at 5:07:23 pm Re: Secondary Dns by Men & Mice Support on Aug 1, 2001 at 6:24:42 pm secondary dns by Peter Duchateau on Feb 19, 2002 at 8:53:00 am Re: secondary dns by Men & Mice Support on Feb 19, 2002 at 10:16:05 am