Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:19:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com> To: Tim Erlin <tperlin@yahoo.com> Cc: Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>, Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>, FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Secondary DNS Message-ID: <20010621111818.W23328-100000@oddjob.adhesivemedia.com> In-Reply-To: <20010621180604.39815.qmail@web11701.mail.yahoo.com>
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> what percentage of the lookups would fail? My > understanding is that DNS will always try the primary > first, and in my case, with a single static IP, if my > DNS fails, chances are so will everything else. Seems > like it wouldn't much matter to me. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure this is incorrect and that there is no distinction b/n primary and secondary nameservers in regards to which gets used to look something up. I think they use the one that's "closest". How they figure that out I don't know, but I am pretty sure that a nameserver doesn't distinguish b/n primary and secondary. -philip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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