Search Again: Re: secondary DNS and timing From: Global Homes Webmaster Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 Time: 11:13:49 am On 04/18/01 at 10:52, Barry wrote: > I do not have a regular secondary DNS server yet. > If I want to use another one of my computers do I have to pay more? Pay more for what? There's no fee from anyone for you to run a name server or to register it with the root servers. You would have the overhead for the care and feeding of the second machine, but I don't think you were referring to that. > How long does it take to be updated around the world. It seems to take a > long time, weeks. Changing a name server for a domain takes however long the domain's registrar takes to update the root servers (usually a day or less) plus, possibly, the TTL of any old NS records may have been replaced (NS records on the gtld-servers.net. servers have a TTL of 48 hours). Changes to some arbitrary record on your own name servers should take no longer than the record's TTL get around to the rest of the 'net. Of course, there are a few resolvers out there (*cough* AOL) that (improperly) ignore TTL's, so it can take longer for users of those resolvers to see the change. Christopher Bort

Messages In This Thread: secondary DNS and timing by Barry on Apr 18, 2001 at 10:55:22 am Re: secondary DNS and timing by Global Homes Webmaster on Apr 18, 2001 at 11:13:49 am Re: secondary DNS and timing by Men & Mice Support on Apr 18, 2001 at 3:46:08 pm