[wplug] DNS Question

[Brandon Kuczenski]

I just moved to a new apartment and a new internet connection, breaking 
294 days of uptime, and I thought I would commemorate the occasion by 
setting up named and taking control of my own domain-name.  Up until now I 
was relying on the nameservers of my domain name provider, joker.com.  I 
know you're supposed to always have two geographically distinct 
nameservers, and so I thought I would run my own in addition to the ones 
joker.com is providing.  But that seems like it should be problematic -- 
how could you have two different master domain name servers?  Which one 
does the user trust?

It seems, then, that I have to take down my own zone file, since joker 
won't let me split dns with them -- it's either all their servers or all 
mine.  What would be the effect of leaving my dns up, given that both 
services provide the same information, ultimately?

Is it still desirable to run one's own domain name server? Or should I 
just rely on joker's?  The only reason I don't like them is the long TTL 
(a full day).

Speaking of which, I might not get anyone's replies until about a day from 
now.

Cheers,
-Brandon