From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 13 08:26:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA10547 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 08:26:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA10497 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 08:25:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-135.laker.net [208.0.233.35]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id LAA09737; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 11:25:35 -0400 Message-Id: <199809131525.LAA09737@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "Francisco Reyes" , "FreeBSD questions" Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 11:25:10 -0400 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Multiple ISPs. What to put on resolv.conf? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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