Tuning BIND 8

[Brad Knowles]

At 4:06 PM +0800 6/22/01, Luke Dudney wrote:

>  You could do some manual testing of the time it takes to receive
>  responses from the root name servers and then use a topology {}
>  statement to give the resolver an ordered list, quickest to slowest.

	That freezes in stone the particular sequence of response times 
from the set of servers at one moment in time.  Problem is, the world 
is a dynamic place, and the server that was fastest a few minutes ago 
may now be the slowest.

	You don't ever want to hard-code this sort of thing, you should 
instead allow BIND to auto-discover it and automatically track it.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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