Do both servers have to be up to resolve?

[David Cost]

I was checking this thread every 30 minutes hoping for a response so I'd
know what to do. As RealDNS is still not responding to email, now I know
that I need to go immediatly and change the Domain info on Internic, thanks
very much.

"Barry Margolin" <barmar at genuity.net> wrote in message
news:HU3N4.42$Bf1.1448 at burlma1-snr2...

> Client machines sending queries don't know which is primary or secondary,
> they just pick one of the servers and send the queries to it, and return
> the response that they got.  If RealDNS's response is that the domain
> doesn't exist, that's what will be returned to the application if the
local
> server happens to select that one.
>
> --
> Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
> Genuity, Burlington, MA
> *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to
newsgroups.
> Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the
group.
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