A question regarding the db.cache file

[Brad Knowles]

At 8:53 AM +0200 2005-07-12, Klas Bengtsson wrote:

>  What I would like to know is what triggers the coming back into play of the
>  first server (once the fault is removed)?

	The old response time numbers are slowly reduced, so that over 
time they become the lowest in the list, and then BIND retries them. 
If they don't work or don't work well, then this information will be 
recorded and they won't be retried again for a while.

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