On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 12:39:32PM +1200, Andy Linton wrote: It's a good point Peter makes - there seems little point in having redundant nameservers on the same network. I suspect they're not the only guilty ones here - you'd do well to check your particular provider. Many (most?) people are guilty of this... most places I check at random (especially smaller places) have all name-servers for a given zone within the same prefix. When setting up servers start with outside your own network, then on a network with a different backbone provider and offshore for even better redundancy. For larger companies with various automated systems this can be a pain and also a source of anguish for a variety of reasons. Many people are also of the attitude that if one name-server let alone both are down for a given network, then 'who cares' as everything else important such as email and www is also busted. And for many people this is to a large extent true. --cw - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog