Search Again: Re: ns1 and ns2 point to two servers From: Men & Mice Support Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 Time: 10:46:36 pm At 10:42 PM -0700 4/9/02, rashantha de silva wrote: >hello > >can you split ns1 and ns2 into two primary domain files so that each ns look >will direct the web user to different ip address. Yes, you can. In other words, instead of having a primary server and a secondary server, you have two primary servers. The two servers have almost identical copies of the zone, except the IP address of the web server is different on each. >now both 64.100.30.60 and 229.199.40.75 is bound to a internal address say >192.168.0.2 where the web server sits. > >i am trying to find a method where traffic can flow through different ips >via respective ns returns. > >this way when ns1 one fails which means ip #1 is down traffic will still >flow to ns2 and reach the web server via ip #2. Right. >main_domain.net ns ns1.main_domain.net >ns1.maindomain.net a 64.100.30.60 >main_domain.net a 64.100.30.60 > > >main_domain.net ns ns2.main_domain.net >ns2.maindomain.net a 229.199.40.75 >main_domain.net a 229.199.40.75 Not good. Instead, have normal-looking zone files, like this: On ns1: zone.name. NS ns1.zone.name. zone.name. NS ns2.zone.name. zone.name. MX 10 mx1.zone.name. zone.name. MX 20 mx2.zone.name. ns1.zone.name. A 64.100.30.60 mx1.zone.name. A 64.100.30.60 ns2.zone.name. A 229.199.40.75 mx2.zone.name. A 229.199.40.75 zone.name. A 64.100.30.60 www.zone.name. A 64.100.30.60 On ns2: zone.name. NS ns1.zone.name. zone.name. NS ns2.zone.name. zone.name. MX 10 mx1.zone.name. zone.name. MX 20 mx2.zone.name. ns1.zone.name. A 64.100.30.60 mx1.zone.name. A 64.100.30.60 ns2.zone.name. A 229.199.40.75 mx2.zone.name. A 229.199.40.75 zone.name. A 229.199.40.75 www.zone.name. A 229.199.40.75 >can these primary files be called main_domain_1.net and main_domain_2.net The files can be called whatever you want, if you're using QuickDNS Pro 2.x and have to worry about filenames. With QuickDNS 3, keep the zone names the same. CAUTION: If you use QuickDNS 3 to do this, never connect to both servers at the same time and make changes. If you are connected to both servers and save either version of the zone, it will save to both servers. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy

Messages In This Thread: ns1 and ns2 point to two servers by rashantha de silva on Apr 9, 2002 at 10:42:24 pm Re: ns1 and ns2 point to two servers by Men & Mice Support on Apr 10, 2002 at 10:46:36 pm