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Can you have two different DNS providers?
You can have as many DNS providers as you like, but the domain name itself can only be registered with a single organization.
Can you have multiple primary DNS servers?
You can have as many Primary DNS zones as you wish in your environment. again, one server can host multiple zones. Or if you wish you can have multiple DNS servers each hosting a primary zone.
Why do I have multiple DNS servers?
8 Answers. The major point in having a secondary DNS server is as backup in the event the primary DNS server handling your domain goes down. A secondary DNS server is always up, and ready to serve. It can help balance the load on the network as there are now more than one authoritative place to get your information.
What are DNS services?
DNS (Domain Name Service) is the Internet “address book” of web sites. Whenever you go to a site such as http://apple.com your browser must make calls to the DNS server specified in your Network Settings to translate “apple.com” into Apple’s IP (Internet Protocol) address of 17.178.
What primary DNS should I use?
Personally, I prefer OpenDNS (208.67. 220.220 and 208.67. 222.222) and Google Public DNS (8.8. When changing DNS server settings, you’ll want to make sure that you specify at least two servers, although you can include more if you want.
Should I use secondary DNS?
Secondary DNS servers are not mandatory—the DNS system can work even if only a primary server is available. But it is standard, and often required by domain registrars, to have at least one secondary server.
Why would multiple DNS servers be listed?
Having more than one name server (a DNS record type) set to your domain name provides redundancy, and works for ensuring your website’s availability at all times. If, for some reason, your primary name server cannot be reached at a given time, your visitor’s DNS resolution request is routed to the secondary server set for your domain.
How to get Primary DNS and secondary DNS?
Go to the Start menu. Click on the Run button. Type ‘cmd’ in the text box and press Enter. Type ‘ipconfig/all’ in the Command Prompt window and press Enter. You will find your primary and secondary DNS in the resulting information.
What do primary and secondary DNS actually do?
Primary DNS servers contain all relevant resource records and handle DNS queries for a domain. By contrast, secondary DNS servers contain zone file copies that are read-only, meaning they cannot be modified.
Is DNS server and host file are different?
A hosts file is used by Operating Systems to manually specify the IP addresses for specific domains/subdomains – think of it as an override. DNS however is a server – think of it as a registry – that keeps track of records pertaining to domains, such as A records, MX records etc.