What happens if one of my name servers is down?
Hostmaster wrote:
> What types of errors would we get if we just
removed one of our
> DNS's from all our records at NetworkSolutions
but left the DNS
> NS records in each of our zone files on our
servers and vice versa?
>
> Would public users see any errors when accessing
our web sites if
> one of our DNS's is down and not removed
from our records at
> NetworkSolutions or from the zone files on
each of our working
> DNS servers?
They probably wouldn't see any errors, but resolution of domain names in your zones could take longer, since other name servers might try to query your "down" name server and would timeout waiting for it to respond.
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