Kai Schaetzl wrote: > It's better, but still: > > - as the MX is the same as your domain name you do not need an MX > - as all your hosts point to the same IP you can just use a wildcard > - as I'm sure you don't change your hosts several times a day you can up > the TTL to a more reasonable time like 86400 (=a day) > - having four ns records all point to the same IP is just, uhm, pointless > worse than pointless, its ugly. in the event your server is down and not responding, a lookup server will try it 4 times as many times as it otherwise would. the only NS records that should be in your zone are exactly the same as the ones in the registrar for the domain. $ whois obrien-pifer.com ... Domain Name: OBRIEN-PIFER.COM Registrar: WILD WEST DOMAINS, INC. Whois Server: whois.wildwestdomains.com Referral URL: http://www.wildwestdomains.com Name Server: NS1.OBRIEN-PIFER.COM Name Server: NS2.OBRIEN-PIFER.COM Server Name: NS1.OBRIEN-PIFER.COM IP Address: 70.62.90.185 Registrar: WILD WEST DOMAINS, INC. Whois Server: whois.wildwestdomains.com Referral URL: http://www.wildwestdomains.com Server Name: NS2.OBRIEN-PIFER.COM IP Address: 70.62.90.185 Registrar: WILD WEST DOMAINS, INC. Whois Server: whois.wildwestdomains.com Referral URL: http://www.wildwestdomains.com I'm surprised the registrar let you register two HOST names for the same IP, they aren't supposed to do that.