Question About Terminology
Sam Wilson
Sam.Wilson at ed.ac.uk
Thu Aug 17 09:40:40 UTC 2006
In article <eadn6e$16s1$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
Chris Buxton <cbuxton at menandmice.com> wrote:
> On Jul 27, 2006, at 8:03 PM, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
>
> > The client or stub resolver, as mentioned in another post, only
> > performs recursion when it knows of multiple name servers.
>
> If a stub resolver is configured with multiple name servers, it must
> use some algorithm to choose between them. The best case scenario
> would be to use something like the BIND RTT algorithm. But some stub
> resolvers simply query their local resolving name servers in the
> order listed.
For historical completeness the Novell LAN Workplace for DOS resolver
used to simply send queries to all configured nameservers in parallel.
I don't know of any other resolvers which implement(ed) this effective
but aggressive procedure.
Sam
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