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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 19:26:42 -0600
From: Kenneth Ingham <ingham@i-pi.com>
To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>, isp@hub.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: [Q] what happens when 1 of N nameservers dies?
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On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 04:26:13PM -0700, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
> 	let abc.org have 3 domain nameservers ns1.abc.org, ns2.abc.org,
> 	and ns3.abc.org.  all are pointed to by the Internic.
> 	one dies.  a person/program at another domain does a lookup
> 	on a host in abc.org.   
> 
> 	what happens?  
>
> 	do 1/3 of the lookups return "host unknown"?
Nope.

> 	does the resolver try one nameserver and if it does not
> 	receive a response try another?
Yep.

Kenneth

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