resolv.conf question

[Kevin Darcy]

If reducing query latency is that important to you, why not just run a
caching-only server on the box?


- Kevin

Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:

> I know that the servers given in /etc/resolv.conf are queried in the order
> they're listed there. If the first server fails, we get a timeout and the
> second server is tried and so on.
>
> My question: Is there any way to automatically reorder the server in such a
> way, that query time is optimal?
>
> Reason: We had several customers complaining about bad performance, and one
> of the main resons was that the nameservers in their /etc/resolv.conf's were
> not answering their machine's queries.
>
> So if a nameserver repeatedly fails to answer requests, it should be pushed
> back (downwards) in the list of servers.
>
> Any thoughts?