Nameservers for back-up

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Joined: Jan 1970

Hi,
I want to set up a mirror site as a back-up in case of total server failure on my main site.

If I list my nameservers with the registrar like this:
ns1, ns2,
ns3, ns4

would browsers automatically go to ns3, ns4 (for the back-up site) if the first two
nameservers were not found?

If this won't work, can anyone tell me another way?

Thanks!

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He has: 945 posts

Joined: Aug 2001

Maybe, maybe not. The whole point of having ns3 and 4 is to act as a backup. Im my experience though this practice sometime fails if ns1 and ns2 are both unavailable..

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