primary&secondary

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark E Drummond <drummond-m at rmc.ca> writes:

    Mark> And my point still stands. If your "primary" (first IP in
    Mark> your resolv.conf or equivalent) is down, the resolver will
    Mark> wait for ~60 secs before "failing over" to the
    Mark> "secondary". 

No. Well not in the BIND8 resolver anyway. The default timeout for
getting an answer is 5 seconds. So if the first listed name server in
resolv.conf doesn't answer, the second is queried after 5 seconds, and
so on. This can be changed by the timeout: keyword in resolv.conf.