From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 21 11:26:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cody.jharris.com (cody.jharris.com [205.238.128.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C081837B403 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:26:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by cody.jharris.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f5LJmeJ15419; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:48:40 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:48:40 -0500 (CDT) From: Nick Rogness X-Sender: nick@cody.jharris.com To: Tim Erlin Cc: Rick Hamell , FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Secondary DNS In-Reply-To: <20010621180604.39815.qmail@web11701.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: 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 On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Tim Erlin wrote: > > Theoretically, if you were to set a random DNS server (say, your ISPs) > as your secondary with the root servers without actually setting it up > as a secondary, 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. ACK! Don't do this or you can piss people off. And no it will not necessarily choose the primary first. Nick Rogness - Keep on Routing in a Free World... "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message