Multiserver, but still dns offline

[klasje]

Problem: If 1 server goes down, everything goes down.

Current set-up:

Server1
domain.com with 2 ns records:
ns1.domain.com pointing to server 1
ns2.domain.com pointing to server 2

Server 2
Just hosting some other sites, all domains using ns1 & ns2
Zone transfer between server 1 & 2.

Assumption:
If server 1 goes offline, the sites will keep on working on other servers, as ns2 points to a copy of the dns zones.

Reality:
If server 1 goes offline, ns2 cannot be found (or is not used?) and all websites go offline.


What is the proper way to solve this?
I assumed ns2 would serve as a dns backup, but it apparantly does not.

 

[Active8]

multiserver does not copy your site , only dns info is there
so when your data is on server 1 and its offline dns still point to that server but its offline so it works like expected

What you are searching for is load balancer thing

 

[klasje]

No no,
I don't need that.
If DNS on server 1 is down, server 2 hosted sites should still work, that's my point.

Its normal sites on server 1 are down, but they should be independent from server 2.
Having 2 nameservers does not mean the sites keep working for me...
That's just wrong.
I have 2 nameservers on different servers just to keep my sites up, but it doesn't somehow...