RFC 2182:Selection and Operation of Secondary DNS ...
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Reliability


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... network connectivity exhibited by the set of DNS servers for a zone can increase the reliability of that zone as well as improve overall network performance ...
... performance and access characteristics. Other considerations in server choice can unexpectedly lower reliability or impose extra demands on the network. ...


... addresses which most of the network cannot reach does not add any reliability, and causes several problems, which may, in the end, lower the reliability ...
... network cannot reach does not add any reliability, and causes several problems, which may, in the end, lower the reliability of the zone. ...
... firewall is blocking this access. All of this additional load does no more than effectively lower the reliability of the service. ...


... organisation level zones, with at least one which must be well removed from the others. For zones where even higher reliability is required, four, or even five, servers may be desirable. Two, or occasionally three of five, would be at the local site, with the ...



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