From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 4 7:16:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tethys.valhalla.net (tethys.valhalla.net [195.26.32.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E86C37B727 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 07:16:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@tethys.valhalla.net) Received: by tethys.valhalla.net (Postfix, from userid 500) id 987D832E7C; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 15:16:23 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 15:16:23 +0100 From: Mark Drayton To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS primary secondary question Message-ID: <20010404151623.A9882@tethys.valhalla.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from eyurtese@turkuamk.fi on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:33:49PM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Evren Yurtesen (eyurtese@turkuamk.fi) wrote: > 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 Primary nameservers don't have a higher precedance than secondary nameservers. The purpose of having primary and secondary nameservers to to make maintainance easier. You update the zone data on the primary and it's automagically propagated out to the secondaries. They should be queried in a random order to balance the load. Cheers, -- Mark Drayton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message