Some questions about bind
Jeff Lasman
blists at nobaloney.net
Tue May 4 00:59:04 UTC 2004
On Monday 03 May 2004 07:59 am, Brent Bolin wrote:
> 1. When a domain has miltiple name servers listed(whois) what name
> server does it use.
Who is the "it" in this question? I don't see an antecedent for it.
> Does it do round-robin or does it use the first
> listed name server ?
Is "it" your local resolver? It should try all of them and accept the
first response it gets back.
> 2. If someone is trying to get to a name address and the first name
> server does not have it listed will bind try the next authoritative
> name server for that domain or does it stop at the first name server
> ?
It will stop after it receives it's first response, whether that
response is authoritative, non-authoritive, or NXDOMAIN.
Jeff
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