Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 11:25:10 -0400 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "Francisco Reyes" <reyesf@newsguy.com>, "FreeBSD questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Multiple ISPs. What to put on resolv.conf? Message-ID: <199809131525.LAA09737@laker.net>
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On Sat, 12 Sep 1998 20:28:52 -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: >I just got a new provider today and will keep the old for a month or >two. >Does it matter which DNS servers I use in resolv.conf? You can put up to three nameservers in resolv.conf I'd put the newest ISP at the top, followed by the older. The way this will work is that any name resolution will be performed by the newest ISP unless his nameserver timesout, at which point the older ISP's nameserver will get queried. You could continue to use the old ISP's nameserver, but you'd experience network delays getting responses back because the requests/responses would be going thru more hops... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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