Search Again: Re: Running on two. From: Men & Mice Support Date: Friday, October 29, 1999 Time: 8:47:00 pm At 4:33 PM -0400 10/29/99, andrew kagan wrote: >I've experienced this as well. If I turn off my primary, and even if I have >the secondary DNS IP listed on the client computer, I'll just get a "page >cannot be displayed" or "server not found" error. > >A long time ago, I had the secondary set up as a primary as well, but I >don't remember if it behaved any differently. > >Men and Mice, is there something I'm missing? Is there a TTL at play here >that makes the client ignore that a secondary exists? I was just noticing a similar behavior on my machine yesterday, but it had nothing to do with QuickDNS Pro - one of my DNS servers had crashed, and my TCP/IP stack wasn't going to the second server. Ideally, a recursive query should be sent to each server listed in the control panel, simultaneously. TCP/IP should then take the first answer it gets. It might do some tuning thereafter, based on whichever server responds more quickly, but it should at least periodically try both (all) servers. It looks to me like maybe OT is instead just querying the first listed server; if a timeout occurs, it might then move on to the second server (I'm not sure). This looks to me to be an Open Transport issue on the client machine, and not a server issue at all. However, I'll ask our engineers to look into this, just in case. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

Messages In This Thread: Re: Running on two. by andrew kagan on Oct 29, 1999 at 8:33:00 pm Running on two. by Ross Markbreiter on Oct 29, 1999 at 8:37:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Men & Mice Support on Oct 29, 1999 at 8:47:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Men & Mice Support on Oct 29, 1999 at 8:52:00 pm Re: Running on two. by andrew kagan on Oct 29, 1999 at 9:13:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Men & Mice Support on Oct 29, 1999 at 9:23:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Ross Markbreiter on Oct 29, 1999 at 9:34:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Ross Markbreiter on Oct 29, 1999 at 10:03:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Men & Mice Support on Nov 2, 1999 at 6:43:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Ross Markbreiter on Nov 2, 1999 at 7:17:00 pm Re: Running on two. by andrew kagan on Nov 2, 1999 at 7:41:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Peter Lalor on Nov 2, 1999 at 9:07:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Peter Bancroft on Nov 2, 1999 at 10:37:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Men & Mice Support on Nov 2, 1999 at 10:46:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Men & Mice Support on Nov 2, 1999 at 11:21:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Ross Markbreiter on Nov 2, 1999 at 11:30:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Men & Mice Support on Nov 2, 1999 at 11:49:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Ross Markbreiter on Nov 2, 1999 at 11:54:00 pm Re: Running on two. by Ross Markbreiter on Nov 3, 1999 at 12:59:00 am Re: Running on two. by Men & Mice Support on Nov 3, 1999 at 1:19:00 am