[34046] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: How common is lack of DNS server diversity?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Sat Jan 27 14:12:26 2001
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: 'Tony Rall' <trall@almaden.ibm.com>,
Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 11:10:34 -0800
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> From: Tony Rall [mailto:trall@almaden.ibm.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 10:54 AM
>
> >MS DNS, WinNT4 and below, have broken search algorithm
> implementations.
> >DDNS, Win2K, is currently untested.
>
> Search algorithm? I thought we were talking about making
> full use of the
> dns server list - i.e., if first server doesn't respond try
> the next one in
> the list.
I think, *that* is called a search algorithm. Try it at root level, with
WinNT, you'll find that it doesn't work. Better yet, try it with BIND8
(*nix, of course) too, and compare the results.
If your test doesn't produce the same results, please send test-plan,
scripts, and methods to me. I'd be very interested.
