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[Michael Kjorling]

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Your assumption is correct. All name servers will be tried, and the
one that responds the fastest (provided, of course, that it is
authorative and otherwise doesn't reply with bogus data) will be used.

Every now and then all servers will be retried to check whether one of
them is getting better. Any server which starts responding slowly or
otherwise with data that it shouldn't give back will be penalized.


Michael Kjörling


On Nov 26 2001 12:34 -0500, Traynham.Ken at epamail.epa.gov wrote:

> I will be registering new external nameservers with nic.gov and
> deregistering the existing ones.  I believe there is no way to bias
> which of the newly-registered servers will receive the most queries by
> specifying the order in which the servers appear in the registration
> with nic.gov.  Can someone confirm, or set me straight?
>
> Thanks,
> Ken Traynham

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