Prioritising Nameservers

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Fri Jul 16 16:26:54 UTC 1999


In article <000401becf6b$01a69fe0$330b28c3 at ANDI.pool.net>,
Andi Twine <andi.twine at pool.net> wrote:
>As dns2.nic.it is not running a completely up to date zone file - we would
>like to prioritise them so dns2.nic.it is only used when ns.pool.net is too
>busy.

Why isn't dns2.nic.it up to date?  If you configure it as a slave server it
should update automatically.  If you run BIND 8 on the servers, they'll use
the NOTIFY mechanism so that the slave will update very quickly after the
master is updated.

>Is this possible to do ? If not, does anyone have any good alternatives ?

No, it's not possible to do.  Caching servers keep track of the response
time of servers, and send their queries to the one that has the best
response time.

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