forwarders used in order or based on RTT ?

[Bob Harold]

That is certainly not obvious.  How do I request improving the manual?

"in turn" would seem to imply "in order", and the order would logically be
the order I listed them.

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On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 10:21 AM Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar at fantomas.sk>
wrote:

> On 16.10.20 09:56, Bob Harold wrote:
> >The BIND ARM (9.16.2) says:
> >"There may be one or more forwarders, and they are queried in turn until
> >the list is exhausted
> >or an answer is found."
> >
> >But
> >https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-users/2015-August/095544.html
> >says:
> >"Forwarders are selected based on an RTT(round-trip-time)-based algorithm"
> >
> >So which is correct?
>
> both are. The ARM does not say they are queried in defined order.
> The order is defined by RTT
>
> >And did it change at some point?
>
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