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[Len Conrad]

>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.

nope. registration order of NS hosts with the registrar has nothing to do 
with the DNS RRset order.

>Can someone confirm, or set me straight?

The NS records passed out by the .gov parent (aka root-servers.net) for 
epa.gov will be in cyclic RRset order, as they appear to be now.

Len


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