DNS primary and secondaries...

[Cricket Liu]

> as much as I found out Win 3.x/9.x/NT _usually_ does NOT query the
secondary
> when you have it in the dns-configuration.  on MACs I _never_ saw it
working
> when the primary wasnt reachable that the client switched over to the sec.
> dns server. .. -> broken dns implementaions? not that I care too much...
;^)

Fallback between name servers has always worked for me.  Fallback only
happens if the first name server doesn't respond, of course, or if there's
an
error when you send it a query.

cricket

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