Additional Name Servers

A friend of mine has a site on his own personal server. His site has been down for a week so I told him that he should add the name servers to my host in his registrar's listing. I then set up his domain on my servers (WHM). I'm thinking that when his site is down, a backup "technical difficulties" page will be loaded from my servers.

So that's my thought. It's been a few days and it still hasn't worked yet. It could just be a matter of DNS propogation but am I right to think that this scenario would work? (If I am right about how DNS stuff works, then if his site is down for just an hour, will my page load for that hour and when his site is back online will browsers always attempt to get pages from his server first?)

 

 

 

 

Top