My DNS "Dilemma"

[Xavus]

I have recently purchased Colocation access which gives me 1 MB sustained access, 255 IPs and 1U space… Now each client I have I do not want to spend $24 using Netsol’s Advanced DNS Manager… nor do I want to setup 2 extra Colocation servers just for DNS!....

So here’s my idea… (please tell me if this will work)
- I work at an office that recently upgraded and got a T1 line with a new provider… but the old provider’s contract doesn’t end for another 2 years and 3 months… so “boss can I use the old line?” “ sure eric go ahead”… … (yeah I’m eric).. anywho… think I can efficiently have 2 DNS servers on a separate network without having my customers wait 3 seconds to see a single webpage?


Thanks for your time.

 

[SteveTheGeek]

I don't know about the three seconds (it would depend on the latency/hopcounts of those circuits, not the bandwidth, because DNS requests are not many bytes), but it sounds like a reasonable plan to me.
-Steve

 

[Xavus]

WELLLL...

Here's the problem... How exactly do I go about getting a DNS server setup?

I have to first register a DOMAIN with my ISP right?
Have my DNS Server linked to theirs?

For example... My company currently has dunnmckenzie.com registered with network solutions and Hosted by Kingcon.com.....

sooo when I type in DNS1.KINGCON.COM in network solutions it knows the IP so they have to register with their ISP to give them DNS for their DNS Servers?... Anyone follow me? lol....

 

[SteveTheGeek]

I don't follow you, but maybe this will help?

Register a domain name with a registrar. When you register, you have to have two DNS servers that have your domain name already set up on them. One of the DNS servers will be primary, the other will be secondary and read all changes from the primary. If I'm using an ISP for one of them, I try to make the ISP's the secondary (because it's easier for me to change records on my own server) but sometimes they have rules against it.
-Steve