How bind select NS record during recursive queries

[Tony Finch]

Duleep Thilakarathne <dchandimal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> How does bind select NS entry during recursive queries  , when the answer
> section has multiple NS entries.

It's roughly based on measuring the smoothed round trip time (SRTT) to
each nameserver and picking the closest, with a lot of randomness in the
mix. Try searchengineering [BIND SRTT] for lots of discussion of the
algorithm.

Tony.
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