What happens if one of my name servers is down?
Answered Fri, 22 Nov 2002
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.
cricket
