Question About Terminology

Sam Wilson Sam.Wilson at ed.ac.uk
Thu Aug 17 09:40:40 UTC 2006


In article <eadn6e$16s1$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Chris Buxton <cbuxton at menandmice.com> wrote:

> On Jul 27, 2006, at 8:03 PM, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
> 
> > The client or stub resolver, as mentioned in another post, only  
> > performs recursion when it knows of multiple name servers.
> 
> If a stub resolver is configured with multiple name servers, it must  
> use some algorithm to choose between them. The best case scenario  
> would be to use something like the BIND RTT algorithm. But some stub  
> resolvers simply query their local resolving name servers in the  
> order listed.

For historical completeness the Novell LAN Workplace for DOS resolver 
used to simply send queries to all configured nameservers in parallel.  
I don't know of any other resolvers which implement(ed) this effective 
but aggressive procedure.

Sam



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