How does one bootstrap DNS

Jim Freeze Jim.Freeze at freescale.com
Tue May 3 08:33:15 PDT 2005


Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:

> <>[snippage]

> <>I currently only have one computer on my domain, and it provides dns
> lookups for itself (and virtual servers)[1]
>
> [snippage]

> <>[1] One could argue that I should have at least two name servers, 
> but why
> should I need greater redundancy on my name servers, than I have on my
> other services? If my dns is down, so is my mail, and am in the mercy of
> the sender to keep retrying anyway.

Yes, exactly. Is it permissable for ns1 and ns2 to point to the same IP 
address?

Jim



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