[Fwd: Re: DNS configuration Tool]

[Jeff Lasman]

On Friday 02 January 2004 02:26 am, Ade wrote:

> In any order - is this true?

Short answer: Yes.

> Wont it try primary first and then if
> no response, try secondary etc ??

Short answer: Nope.  Which is one reason why they're no longer called 
primary and secondary, but rather master and slave.

Longer answer: if my recollection is reliable, DNS gets queried in the 
order in which the nameservers are returned, and accepts the answer 
from the first one it gets.  Which depends on network speed, 
geographical location, and lots of other variables you can't control.

Jeff
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