DNS Advice

[round2it]

I have 2 dns servers here and need to ask a question regarding forwarders

 

my primary dns server has the forwarders set to the ISP dns servers

 

do I set my secondary dns to forward to the Primary dns server or should it go out to the isp dns servers

 

seems a little silly to have the secondary pointing to the primary it is just another hop.

 

can someone clarify please

 

Thanks

[ADMaster]

Yes your secondary should also point to the ISP.

The secondary is there in case the primary is not available or too busy. If you forward all of the traffic to it anyway you may as well only have one.

[round2it]

Yes thats my thinking

[Julian]

If your using Windows DNS, and set your DNS servers to "round robin", then both DNS server should have the same settings, and if you make a change to one DNS server, it should be replicated to the other DNS server. This will give you redundancy if one server should go down (be restated for windows update).