Tech Nameserver question

[Publisher Bucks]

Random question, is there any benefit to adding more than 2 nameservers to a domain when setting them up?

Some hosting companies only give you two whereas others give you four.

Does it make any difference if you use two nameservers vs 3 or 4?

[Umami]

In my 20 years of doing this never have I ever needed to use more then 2 nameservers
So I stick to what works and it has never failed me, 2 nameservers

[Publisher Bucks]

In my 20 years of doing this never have I ever needed to use more then 2 nameservers
So I stick to what works and it has never failed me, 2 nameservers

Thats basically my train of thought too.

Just curious about why anyone would need to use more than 2 and if there were any actual benefits to it lol

[fris]

depends where the 4 dns are. if the first two are aws and there is an outage. the 2nd group will be of use.

[Zverka]

depends where the 4 dns are. if the first two are aws and there is an outage. the 2nd group will be of use.

This above. Also you can have more nameservers but if they are on same server no benefit at all as if server goes down all nameservers are down as well. By design you must use minimum 2 nameservers (ns1 / ns2) registered under your domain.

You can also have them both on same IP but no benefit at all as if DNS software in use is on same server and server goes down all nameservers are down as well.

It would be best practice to have ns1/ns2/ns3 ... on different servers on different IPs in different datacenters because of redundancy. All nameservers query each other and copy records for every domain that use them.

If I may suggest to you stop using nameservers on your own server/hosting and start to use free version of CloudFlare only for DNS purpose, here is a guide https://www.cnewcomer.com/use-cloudf...-hosting-only/ . You can disable their cache and proxy and use only DNS and it is a very good third party DNS.

Also in case of some attack you can quickly enable their proxy and use their WAF firewall, many benefits of using CF as DNS provider and it is all cover under their Free Plan.