Tertiary or 2nd Secondary DNS?

Wed Jul 9 00:13:14 UTC 2003

--On Tuesday, July 8, 2003 4:22 PM -0400 "up at 3.am" <up at 3.am> wrote:

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> This question might be more suitable for inet-access, but it's down, so
> I'm resending here:
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> Silly question:
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> If you have a customer who is doing their own primary DNS, but you are
> doing their secondary DNS (on 2 of your name servers) for them, is it
> better practice on your 2nd DNS server to xfer the zones directly from the
> customer's primary DNS server (a second secondary DNS server) or xfer it
> from your first server (the customer's secondary server) doing "true
> tertiary" DNS?  Or should the tertiary use multiple masters?

My hobbiest setup pulls from multiple masters.  Not much point having 
multiple
servers if a little network partitioning (which happens all too often) will 
stop your servers from communicating.