RE: (PM) Feature Request- specify 3rd DNS server

Mark Radabaugh - Amplex (mark@amplex.net)
Mon, 13 Dec 1999 00:01:30 -0500

I think Windows will only accept 2 DNS servers when it
negotiates the connection - and early Win95 machines
won't switch servers properly if one goes down. I don't
think the third server would do you much good.

Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419)833-3635
mark@amplex.net

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-portmaster-users@livingston.com
> [mailto:owner-portmaster-users@livingston.com]On Behalf Of
> Richard Fink
> Sent: Sunday, December 12, 1999 11:33 PM
> To: portmaster-users@livingston.com
> Subject: Re: (PM) Feature Request- specify 3rd DNS server
>
>
> Hi Pete,
>
> We do our own Primary DNS in S.F. and our Secondary is in
> Denver. Once in a while we will want to do maintenance on
> our DNS machine. At times the path over the net through US
> Worst in Colorado is not so good, and our monitor shows the
> Colorado DNS machine "in the red". In that case, if we
> happened to be doing maintenance on our DNS box, our
> customers would be in the dark. We host our own Tertiary DNS
> for all the Web Hosting we do. We'd like to provide that
> backup for dial-ups too.
>
> Maybe its excessive. Its not because we are jamming with
> activity but because we want cheap easy built in redundancy,
> and flexibility to work, and not hinder our dial-ups during
> those times.
>
> -Ric
>

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