DNS Redundancy

[lhecking at users.sourceforge.net]

Stephane Bortzmeyer writes:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 06:32:09AM -0500,
>  Martin McCormick <martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote 
>  a message of 39 lines which said:
> 
> > Example:
> > 
> > nameserver	139.78.100.1
> > nameserver	139.78.200.1
> 
> I always add:
> 
> timeout:1
> 
> because the default timeout is 5 seconds, much too important to allow
> for a smooth fallback.
> 
> Other options could be interesting, such as "rotate". See
> resolv.conf(5).
 
 Nearly off-topic, but how does one specify such options via dhcp?



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