<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 8:00 AM, Niall O'Reilly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:niall.oreilly@ucd.ie" target="_blank">niall.oreilly@ucd.ie</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 25 Nov 2016, at 12:17, Marcelo Magno Espindola de Melo wrote:<br>
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> How many dns servers can I configure for isc-dhcpd to serve?<br>
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</span> There is no specific limit.<br>
Beyond two or three, any additional ones are likely not useful.<br>
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I'ld suggest just using two.<br>
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I understand that some clients (used to?) ignore any DNS servers<br>
beyond the first two.<br>
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It's not unusual for clients to attempt to use the DNS servers<br>
always in the same order (as given in the DHCP option 6), so that<br>
the second one is only used in case a response is not received<br>
from the first within the time-limit. If you configure 5 DNS<br>
servers, and for some reason only the last is working, your<br>
customers will notice such delays that they won't appreciate the<br>
trouble you took to provide four stages of fallback.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Niall O'Reilly<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>There might be other clients that try all the addresses at the same time, so again two is the best number.</div><div>If I recall correctly, three was the limit at one point. So three would also be ok.</div><div>Beyond that, use anycast (preferred) or a load balancer to put more DNS servers behind the same 2 or 3 IP's.</div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Bob Harold</div><div> </div></div><br></div></div>