Name servers list seconday name server as primary name server.

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9pu5e3$s9a at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Andreas Guther <andreas at netfuel.com> wrote:
>Barry, if the @Home nameserver and other nameservers do not care
>which is the primary name server and which is the secondary one
>in the "whois" entry, well then I have a problem or had, since I
>took the one nameserver, which I do not have control over, off the
>list.  I was under the impression that the primary name server is
>the one that is normaly contacted and only in case the primary is
>not available, the secondary is queried.

No.  Caching servers remember how quickly different servers answer, and
they prefer the faster servers, not the primary server.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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