[34044] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: How common is lack of DNS server diversity?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Sat Jan 27 13:42:06 2001
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: 'Charles Scott' <cscott@gaslightmedia.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 10:38:32 -0800
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> It appeared from the reports/complaints we
> received that a number of client systems/resolvers had decided to only
> request data from the nonfunctional DNS server and despite
> failing on that
> wouldn't ask our other listed DNS servers. They therefore could not
> resolve addresses for otherwise functional network assets. I seem to
> remember this was somehow related to systems running Microsoft OS's.
> Am I confused or could it be that Microsoft knows something
> about this?
MS DNS, WinNT4 and below, have broken search algorithm implementations.
DDNS, Win2K, is currently untested.
