2 or 4 nameservers

[dpyers]

Way back when the earth was new and dinosaurs roamed my driveway chomping on my dsl, I was told that as a new account, I should only use ns2 and ns3 name servers as ns and ns1 were pre-Jurassiac and us pre-Cambian troglodytes would have no use for them and would not have new domain info placed there.

With the new ip's, is this still the case? I noticed that If I do a nslookup using the new ip's for ns or ns1 I now see my domains there.

Should I update my registrar info to use all four name servers instead of just ns2 and ns3?

[generic]

if nobody else answers, i would say YES.

cant hurt, and your covered if hsphere ever sets up a site of yours to use ns and ns1 some day.

[princessangry]

well mines always ns2 and 3.... oddd

[Vantage]

Uggg Assumptions BAAADD.....
This troglodyte says look at what the control panel gives you each time.

More than likely it will be ns2 + ns3 for the forseable future..
You dont want to rely on that though, as from time to time we may switch over to ns and ns1 during maintenance or durring a flurry of signups the load on ns2 and ns3 might get high enough for us to want to start loading the other servers again...
You never can predict the future.....

[princessangry]

yep u got that right.....

[cambodia]

Originally Posted by princessangry

well mines always ns2 and 3.... oddd

i'm always give ns2 ns3 to new sign up too what ns4 use for ?

[princessangry]

one site had an ns10!!!!

[dpyers]

With the old IP's. I didn't have any domain info on ns and ns1. With the new IP's, I do.

My control panel says ns2 & ns3 and in the past, when I did a nslookup through the ip's for ns and ns1, I didn't get any hits for my domains. Using the new ip's for ns and ns1 I do get hits.

So it sounds like I should be using ns2 ans ns3 as primary and secondary, with ns and ns1 as third and fourth for back-up purposes if ns2 and ns3 are down for maintenance.

If ns2 and ns3 go down in an "unscheduled manner", will ns and ns1 be current?

[Brangwyn]

Don't add any nameservers to your domain that isn't listed in the control panel .. Vantage spelled that out best I think

If your domain is listed in the CP as being on ns2 or ns3 then it's not going actually going to be in ns or ns1 zone files (it may resolve if they forward to each other perhaps, but they certainly won't be authoritive) at least thats how i understood they were setup some time ago.

The IP's changing shouldn't have changed anything, perhaps they are now forwarding to each other but I'd really recommend you just use what the CP tells you to and nothing else.