[GLLUG] DNS Child Name Servers

Jeff Lawton jeff at idealso.com
Thu Jan 7 12:04:30 EST 2016


Thank you, I confirmed that they are fine this way.  ns set are
automated to pull configs from another server. The nshost set are
handling different domains, there is no overlap. The registrar defines
which name server to use for a given domain.

Jeff

Jeff Lawton
Ideal Solution, LLC
517-485-2650 ext 220
jeff at idealso.com
http://www.idealso.com


On 01/06/2016 10:02 PM, Kevin Charbonneau wrote:
> Does ns1 and nshosts1 need to resolve the same names/IP's? 
>
> Can ns1 and nshosts1 talk to each other? 
> If so, can you just make ns1 the authoritative DNS server for all
> domains?
>
> So ns1 might be the authoritative server for domain example1.com
> <http://example1.com>.  But when someone using nshots1 server tries to
> go to example1.com <http://example1.com> then nshosts redirects them
> to ns1 dns server.
>
> Kevin Charbonneau
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Robert Youngs, Jr.
> <ryoungs at liquidweb.com <mailto:ryoungs at liquidweb.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'd probably look for any inconsistencies in the zone file for the
>     domain. In my experience, something like this is only known to be
>     a housekeeping pet peeve and as long as your authoritative
>     nameservers are doing what they're supposed to, you shouldn't run
>     into any issues.
>
>     Robert
>
>     -- 
>     Cheers,
>
>     Robert Youngs, Jr.
>     Server Monitoring Technician
>
>     Liquid Web, Inc.
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>
>
>     On 1/6/16 11:58 AM, Jeff Lawton wrote:
>
>         Gluggers,
>
>         I have a question that I have found difficult to find and
>         answer for. I
>         suspect I am over thinking it and am hoping some on the list has a
>         deeper understanding than I do on this. I have a domain, lets say
>         example.com <http://example.com>. I have two sets of name
>         servers ns1.example.com <http://ns1.example.com> and
>         ns1.example.com <http://ns1.example.com>, and
>         nshost1.example.com <http://nshost1.example.com> and
>         snhost2.example.com <http://snhost2.example.com>. The
>         ns1 and ns2 report the same information, nshost1 and nshost2
>         report the
>         same information. nshost1 and ns1 report information for different
>         domains. My question is if this is a bad Idea or it does not
>         matter
>         because the domains specify the name servers anyway.
>
>         Thank you in advance for any clarity given.
>         Jeff
>
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