Secondary DNS Servers
Kevin Darcy
kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Wed Jan 15 17:50:20 UTC 2003
lumux wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Could anyone please answer the following for me:
>
>If a DNS server requests the record for a domain, but the primary server is
>unavailable and the record is retrieved from the secondary DNS server, how
>log will the DNS server continue using secondary server over the primary?
>
I'm not sure exactly how you're using the term "primary" and
"secondary". Order is not significant amongst the nameservers in an NS
RRset, but most nameserver implementations will prefer *faster* NS'es
over slower ones. So if one of the NS'es, which is normally faster, goes
unavailable, then the time it takes for it to be preferred again after
being restored depends on how *much* faster it is and how often it
happens to be queried from any other given nameserver -- they all have
to "re-learn" about the response speed of the restored nameserver.
- Kevin
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