From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Jul 20 11:49:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA28549 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 11:49:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.DPCSYS.com [209.25.4.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA28544 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 11:49:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id SAA01339; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 18:48:48 GMT Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 11:48:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: "Ronald E. Eakins, Sr." cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS "slow" In-Reply-To: <199707191942.MAA02575@ns1.nms.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Ronald E. Eakins, Sr. wrote: > I have seen this problem under the following conditions: > > You have a Primary and a Secondary server and the clients point at > the Secondary server first. Since the secondary server has to obtain > info from the primary, it goes to get the name from the primary, but Not so. Secondaries are just as authoritative as primaries. The only difference between the two is in how they load zone data. > http://www.acmebw.com/askmr.htm Well, he has it right. See http://www.acmebw.com/askmrdns/general.htm#rtt-explanation But you should really be using DNS and BIND as your info source. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82