[34049] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How common is lack of DNS server diversity?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Scott)
Sat Jan 27 15:19:15 2001
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 15:15:21 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Scott <cscott@gaslightmedia.com>
To: Brian <bri@sonicboom.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Brian wrote:
> I have heard from numerous sources that even if you provide multiple name
> servers in windows 9x tcp/ip config, only the first is used. Not sure how
> true it is currently. It seems from below you are talking about
> resolvers, not authorative name servers??
Brian:
Yes, talking about resolvers. If I remember the incident correctly, at
the time a number of other nearby providers were using NT servers and it
was those which failed to ask another authoritative name server for the
domain when a particular server was not reachable. In our case, it was
actually the second server listed for our domains.
Chuck
