Can bind read resolv.conf for forwarders?
Situ, Kevin
Kevin.Situ at FMR.COM
Mon Feb 24 19:42:58 UTC 2003
Cricket,
Thanks for the info, But what is RTT? Route thru time? - from your from
your book.
Thanks
Kevin Situ
FISC-T Network System
(617)563-8761
-----Original Message-----
From: Cricket Liu [mailto:cricket at nxdomain.com]
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 1:59 PM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: Can bind read resolv.conf for forwarders?
On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 10:55 AM, Situ, Kevin wrote:
> I have two forward IP in options block:
> Options {
> ....
> forwarders { 192.10.1.32;192.20.12.14; };
> };
>
> How does these two IP being use,
> Round robin or always send to 192.10.1.32 unless does not get answer
> from
> 192.10.1.32. then it will forward to 192.20.12.14
The latter, unless you're using BIND 8.2.3 or later. BIND 8.2.3 and
later BIND 8 name servers use RTT to choose among forwarders.
BIND 9 name servers use the older behavior until 9.3.0.
cricket
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