choosing a root server(s)

[Cricket Liu]

Sezen Uysal <sezen.uysal at open-systems-services.com> wrote in message
news:<376AA0A0.22C27097 at open-systems-services.com>...
> I was hoping to tune BIND so that it would go to only the close ones
instead
> of all of the root servers around the world with equal probability. Is it
> possible to implement this (besides changing the source code)?

Your name server doesn't use all of the root name servers with equal
probability.  It keeps track of how long they take to respond and uses those
that respond the most quickly.

cricket

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