From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 4 4:33:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi (bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi [193.166.133.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E00037B719 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 04:33:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eyurtese@bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi) Received: from localhost (eyurtese@localhost) by bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA46874 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 14:33:49 +0300 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 14:33:49 +0300 (WET) From: Evren Yurtesen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: DNS primary secondary question Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I wonder how does resolvers lookup dns names. Do they check primary and secondary randomly or they check secondary only if they can't reach the primary server? or does it work so the fastest one which answer is chosen? Anybody has an idea? Thanks Evren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message