From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 10 15:11:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.dsl.frii.net [216.17.139.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2B1C37B405 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:11:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.4/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f5AMB9i48652; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 16:11:09 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200106102211.f5AMB9i48652@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Walter Hop Cc: Peter Kok , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: secondary name server In-Reply-To: <4493555295.20010610150450@binity.com> From: Chris Fedde Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 16:11:08 -0600 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 Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:04:50 +0200 Walter Hop wrote: +------------------ | [in reply to cckok00@hotmail.com, 10-06-2001] | | > what is the content in the resolv.conf of the secondary name server? | | It does not really matter that much, but the first nameserver specified | in resolv.conf is queried first. | | My /etc/resolv.conf looks like this: | domain b118.binity.net | nameserver 172.18.1.2 | nameserver 172.18.1.3 +------------------ Remember that the behavior of resolvers varies widely between different operating systems. FreeBSD and most of the unixes have a reasonable behavior of trying the first listed name server, waiting a short time then trying the next nameserver. MS-Windows at least through ME has the behavior of trying the first namserver over and over till 90 seconds have passed before first trying the second. The quality of a system is demonstrated by how it behaves under stress. -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message