ns2.dreamhost.com nameserver issues
Posted (July 31st, 2008 at 5:42 pm PST) by danwyWe are currently having issues with our ns2.dreamhost.com server. It is not responding to queries and it may cause issues if you’re trying to point a new domain to our nameservers. After a quick check, we believe this may be due to a bad drive in the server. Our admin team is currently working on this situation and hope to have it resolved as soon as possible. We will update this post when we have more information or the issue is resolved. We’re sorry for any inconvenience this causes you.
Update: This issue has been resolved. Basically, the nameserver had an issue with database replication and needed a bit of TLC from our admin team to get it working again. It is now accepting queries and any issues caused by this should now be taken care of.
4 Responses to “ns2.dreamhost.com nameserver issues”
Happy for the issue is with NS2 and not with NS1… 
What’s wrong with dalitz cluster?
@Andre; ns2 failing is pretty much as bad as ns1 failing. DNS servers don’t actually failover; if ns2 is down (and there’s just ns1 and ns2), 50% of queries will go unanswered until the situation is addressed. ns2 is a secondary in the sense that ns1 holds the master database that it only downloads to replicate, and all ‘live’ changes are made at ns1, but this only makes it less of a big deal if ns1 fails, it doesn’t mean ns2 is less important.
Well…
Good luck!