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? Message-ID: <19980821192642.40798@i-pi.com> In-Reply-To: <199808212326.QAA13587@hub.freebsd.org>; from Jonathan M. Bresler on Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 04:26:13PM -0700 References: <199808212326.QAA13587@hub.freebsd.org>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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