Search Again: Re: Running on two. From: Ross Markbreiter Date: Friday, October 29, 1999 Time: 9:34:00 pm >I have both our service provider and local dns entered. >>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

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