On 1/27/06, Jonathan De Graeve <Jonathan dot De dot Graeve at imelda dot be> wrote:
> I have the idea to change add a tertiary dns field for the dns servers.
>
> I had this situation:
>
> 2 dns server after checkpoint fw, fw went down for hotfix installations.
>
> Clients behind m0n0wall where still logged on but could surf anymore
> since the 2dns servers where unreachable.
>
> I want to be able to handle the failure of 1 dns and also the failure of
> the firewall.
>
> If nobody disagrees I will add this to the current devel tree
>
> J.
>
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> Jonathan De Graeve
> Network/System Administrator
> Imelda vzw
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> jonathan dot de dot graeve at imelda dot be
>
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the more the merrier ! I have had ISP provided DNS go down. Having 3
or 4 DNS is always nice so you can use a back up DNS for when this
happens.

sai