Search Again: Re: Running on two. From: Men & Mice Support Date: Friday, October 29, 1999 Time: 9:23:00 pm At 2:34 PM -0700 10/29/99, Ross Markbreiter wrote: >I have both our service provider and local dns entered. Hello Ross, Which one is listed first in the box in TCP/IP? Try (temporarily) changing the order so that your provider's DNS is first, then disable your primary server and see if your sites come up OK. If everything works as it should, your provider's DNS server should find the information on your secondary server, and your sites should come up quickly. >>>Hi, >>>Can you run QDNS on two servers running primary data so if one goes >>>down you will have the other. >>>We are running two copies right now, one has primary one has >>>secondary. One server was off with the >>>Primary but the none of the sites came up. >> >>Running two primaries (with one license) technically violates your >>license agreement, though running a primary and a secondary does >>not. >> >>Regardless, there shouldn't be any effective difference - the >>difference between primary and secondary is essentially transparent >>to client applications and DNS resolvers (meaning that they can't >>tell the difference). >> >>If you set your TCP/IP prefs to use other servers (such as your >>provider's), do you still have the same problem of your sites not >>coming up when the primary is down? My expectation is that, if your >>secondary server is still operating normally, things should still >>work. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

Messages In This Thread: Re: Running on two. by andrew kagan on Oct 29, 1999 at 8:33:00 pm Running on two. by Ross Markbreiter on Oct 29, 1999 at 8:37:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Men & Mice Support on Oct 29, 1999 at 8:47:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Men & Mice Support on Oct 29, 1999 at 8:52:00 pm Re: Running on two. by andrew kagan on Oct 29, 1999 at 9:13:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Men & Mice Support on Oct 29, 1999 at 9:23:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Ross Markbreiter on Oct 29, 1999 at 9:34:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Ross Markbreiter on Oct 29, 1999 at 10:03:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Men & Mice Support on Nov 2, 1999 at 6:43:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Ross Markbreiter on Nov 2, 1999 at 7:17:00 pm Re: Running on two. by andrew kagan on Nov 2, 1999 at 7:41:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Peter Lalor on Nov 2, 1999 at 9:07:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Peter Bancroft on Nov 2, 1999 at 10:37:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Men & Mice Support on Nov 2, 1999 at 10:46:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Men & Mice Support on Nov 2, 1999 at 11:21:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Ross Markbreiter on Nov 2, 1999 at 11:30:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Men & Mice Support on Nov 2, 1999 at 11:49:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Ross Markbreiter on Nov 2, 1999 at 11:54:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Ross Markbreiter on Nov 3, 1999 at 12:59:00 am Re: Running on two. by Men & Mice Support on Nov 3, 1999 at 1:19:00 am