Hi,

I am interested why people are buying 3rd party name servers, also why it is important to have redundant DNS servers? I am saying this because if I setup DNS server on my server and if server goes down I dont have any use of working 3rd party DNS server when my server is down anyway. So why not setup local DNS Server on machine where everything else resides and when server is down everything is down anyway, and when its working DNS is working too.

Also one question more, I setup my own DNS Server and when I wanted to point my domain to it I got this error:

Errors modifying nameservers: nRRPResponseCode 541

I read on the internet that my DNS server needs to be registered (associated with its IP) and that all better registrars support this. However my current registrar does not have option anywhere for me to do it. Do you know any registrar which will enable me to this my self (they have this option in their control panel)?

Thanks

No matter where your server is you should have 2 possibly 3 DNS servers per the RFC. Ideally you want 2 DNS servers that have some sort of geopraphic seperation.

In your case, if you have only one server, using a third party DNS would be the best option. You are correct in that if your server goes down it does not help. It does help if I have a dedicated DNS server and a dedicated web server. If the DNS server geos down and I have only one DNS server, my sites are down, even though my web server is up. If you have 2 DNS servers, hopefully only one goes down at a time.

As for your error, I dont know where the error is comming fomr. If you are trying to establish namesevers, any registrar should be able to support this. Can you explain where the error is coming from

Jerel

I read more about this on internet. And I think 3rd party web servers do not make sense at all. Because if you have one server in that case you put DNS Server on it, and if server is down everything is down anyway, so no use of second DNS server. If you have 2 or more servers you can setup DNS server on each of them and setup round robin, so when one server is down, other which works will take over both DNS Server and all other services.
Only good reason for 3rd party DNS servers is probably if you do not have DNS Server on your own server, in which case 2 or 3 DNS servers would be advised I suppose.

Jerel, thanks for help

would be interesting to understand this in detail.

What do you not understand?

Actually I have one DNS per webhosting server. Now I want to have 2 servers in diferents geo locations. Im using cPanel, DirectAdmin and Plesk (windows), Im thinking in install cPanel DNS only in the DNS servers, but the question is, is posible to sync the DNS data of the DirectAdmin and Plesk with the cPanel DNS only?

Thanks,

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Do you recomend another DNS manager different of cPanel DNS Only?