From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 21 11:20:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oddjob.adhesivemedia.com (oddjob.adhesivemedia.com [207.202.159.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 780C237B403 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:20:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from localhost (philip@localhost) by oddjob.adhesivemedia.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5LIJV924280; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:19:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:19:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom To: Tim Erlin Cc: Nick Rogness , Rick Hamell , FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Secondary DNS In-Reply-To: <20010621180604.39815.qmail@web11701.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20010621111818.W23328-100000@oddjob.adhesivemedia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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