Search Again: Re: two subnet''s? From: Eric Bickford Date: Thursday, April 8, 1999 Time: 5:29:00 pm >>2. For some reason our secondary DNS server get's a lot of traffic. We >>don't want the backup subnet getting this traffic all the time. > >Your servers are <ns.retort.com> and <ns1.retort.com>. The root servers >appear to report them in alphabetical order, sorting numbers before >letters. I'm not sure if that's a feature of the root servers, or if >they've just been entered in that order. Since they're on the same subnet, >they're the same distance away from any name resolver, so the name resolver >chooses the first one it finds. That's why the secondary gets more traffic. Interesting. Thanks for your feedback. Question: Is it still poor netiquette to permanently config a time-to-live of 1 hour for domain names? ______________________________________________________________________ Eric Bickford eric@macweb.com Web Broadcasting http://webfm.com/

Messages In This Thread: two subnet''s? by Eric Bickford on Apr 8, 1999 at 2:16:00 am Re: two subnet''s? by Chris Buxton on Apr 8, 1999 at 6:28:00 am Re: two subnet''s? by Eric Bickford on Apr 8, 1999 at 5:29:00 pm Re: two subnet''s? by Chris Buxton on Apr 8, 1999 at 7:19:00 pm Re: two subnet''s? by Eric Bickford on Apr 9, 1999 at 2:47:00 am Re: two subnet''s? by Chris Buxton on Apr 9, 1999 at 6:49:00 pm