Hello,

Im just wondering is it possible to make the same nameservers work for 2 seperate servers with seperate IP's for example :

NS1.DOMAIN.COM
NS2.DOMAIN.COM

To point to server1.domain.com & server2.domain.com, even if the server is with 2 different companys with different IP's?

If so how would i go about doing it?

Im sorry if this is something simple, but im not good with DNS

thanks in advance :)
- Danny.

Just make an A Record for server1.domain.com to IP 1, and server2.domain.com to IP 2.

You would have to have access to the DNS of each name server I think. If I set up a site, I can edit the DNS records for that site, but both of the assigned name servers will have the same records, so it would not do what I think you want. And just what do you want to do...???

Perhaps you are looking to have 2 hosting accounts that both have the same exact site? So if one server went down, people would be sent to the second one? If so, I have heard that you can do this.

As I understand it, you would set up your site on two different hosting accounts. ISPa and ISPb. For each site, you will be assigned two name servers (NS1a, NS2a & NS1b, NS2b).

Then in your domain control panel, you would enter in all 4 name servers. If one host is down, or is slow, the other host would serve the pages for the site. The only problems are with databases and other things which could get screwed up as to which server to connect with. But if both sites are the same and are simple, it should work.


For best results I would create each hosting acount as far from each other as possible. Use one host on the East coast and one host on the West coast. Your visitors should get the slight benefit of always getting a fast response, unless you live in Minnesota like I do... :-)

You would have to have access to the DNS of each name server I think. If I set up a site, I can edit the DNS records for that site, but both of the assigned name servers will have the same records, so it would not do what I think you want. And just what do you want to do...???

Perhaps you are looking to have 2 hosting accounts that both have the same exact site? So if one server went down, people would be sent to the second one? If so, I have heard that you can do this.

As I understand it, you would set up your site on two different hosting accounts. ISPa and ISPb. For each site, you will be assigned two name servers (NS1a, NS2a & NS1b, NS2b).

Then in your domain control panel, you would enter in all 4 name servers. If one host is down, or is slow, the other host would serve the pages for the site. The only problems are with databases and other things which could get screwed up as to which server to connect with. But if both sites are the same and are simple, it should work.


For best results I would create each hosting acount as far from each other as possible. Use one host on the East coast and one host on the West coast. Your visitors should get the slight benefit of always getting a fast response, unless you live in Minnesota like I do... :-)

Thanks for the response,
Basically i wanted to use the same nameservers for different servers i think its someone like asmallorange.com who have all their servers pointing to the same namesevers.

Just wondered how they did it.

Danny