Some domains are being read off the secondary DNS instead of the primary DNS first

Vinny Abello vinny at tellurian.com
Mon Jul 18 18:06:10 UTC 2005


At 12:00 PM 7/18/2005, The Doctor wrote:
>I did an nslookup on some of my domains and instead of primary and
>secondary listed in order, I got secondary and primary listed in order
>of preference.  I also reversed a few in the DNS record so that the primary
>and secondary should be listed in order of preference of primary first.
>
>What is going wrong?

Nothing. That's the expected behavior. By default, multiple records 
are served up in a round robin fashion.

Look into "rrset-order" if you want to change this.


Vinny Abello
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