Stupid question

[Simon Waters]

no mail wrote:
> 
> How does DNS decide which root server from the cache.dns file to send its
> query to?  Obviously if all requests tried to go to A.root-servers.net
> first, it would have an unfair load.

According to Cricket's book, when BIND(!) is querying the root
zone all the servers are queried once in random order, and then
only the fastest responding servers are used. 

Curiously A does have a disproportionate load.