question about forward

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 02.09.11 14:52, JudahXIII wrote:
>when i set my dns server (via bind) as "forward only" server, i set two
>destination dns addresses.

do you run bind server as forward only? why not use those forwarders 
directly?

>now, when the first destination dns server is down, will my server still
>send requests to it?

because even if it's down, it may come up once. BIND does try 
ocasionally

>when does my server send request to the second one?

BIND does prefer server that responds faster => when the first comes 
down, bind should start preferring another one, unless it's unreachable 
too.

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