Search Again: Re: Where are geographically the root servers? From: Men & Mice Support Date: Friday, November 12, 1999 Time: 9:14:00 am At 10:01 AM +0100 11/12/99, webmaster wrote: >El 11/11/99 21:00 Men & Mice Support escribió / On 11/11/99 21:00 Men & >Mice Support wrote: > >Hi Chris > >>QuickDNS will start by querying all of the root servers. After that, >>except for occasional retrying of all of them, it will only use the >>most responsive root server. > >So I launch QDNS, start by querying all of the root servers, it choose >one of them... >does it query all the time to the same root server till restart? or >does it make this process with every client query? >Because if QDNS make this process one per launch or restart, and the root >server choosed become more busy... and in the other hand if it make this >process everytime it'd slow down the performance. So, wouldn't it be >better to choose the best root server every "x" minutes? That's exactly what it does. It usually only checks its "preferred" root server, but every so often it will recheck the performance of all of them. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

Messages In This Thread: Where are geographically the root servers? by webmaster on Nov 10, 1999 at 6:22:00 pm Re: Where are geographically the root servers? by Men & Mice Support on Nov 10, 1999 at 11:58:00 pm Re: Where are geographically the root servers? by webmaster on Nov 12, 1999 at 9:01:00 am Re: Where are geographically the root servers? by Men & Mice Support on Nov 12, 1999 at 9:14:00 am