BIND 9

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Wed Jul 23 11:45:36 PDT 2003


John Morgan Salomon wrote:
> Unless you have a different instances listening on different interfaces/IPs
> as master/slave for the same domain if you only have one machine--some
> registrars will not permit master & slave on the same IP.
> Or can BIND9 handle this in a single instance?

The requirement to have seperate nameservers is for redundancy: you are expected 
to actually have two real, seperate machines on two different IP addresses, so 
that DNS continues to work even if one nameserver fails.

-- 
-Chuck



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