Search Again: Re: Primary vs. Secondary From: Men & Mice Support Date: Sunday, May 7, 2000 Time: 12:55:36 pm At 11:54 AM -0700 5/7/00, Peter Lalor wrote: >I wanted to belatedly chime in on this one now that I've turned it >over in my head for awhile. > >>From: "Global Homes Webmaster" <webmaster@globalhomes.com> >> >>On 05/03/00 at 16:21, Joe LeBlanc wrote: >> >>> I always thought that my Secondary DNS server would only get use if the >>> Primary one is down, or not available. Yet it gets as much traffic as the >>> Primary. Is this normal? and if not, any reason that the Secondary one is >> > getting hit so hard? Thanks. >> >>As far as resolving DNS queries is concerned, there's no difference between >>'primary' and 'secondary' name servers. Which is to say that, in >>this context, >>the terms 'primary' and 'secondary' do not imply that one is the >>'main' server >>and the other is a 'back-up' server. There's no provision in the DNS database >>(i.e. in NS records) for differentiating between primary and secondary >>servers, so all of the servers with authority for a given domain are treated >>as peers. In fact, there is really no way to guarantee that NS records will >>even be returned in any particular order in response to queries. All name >>servers listed in NS records for a domain should expect to see a >>roughly equal >>number of requests for the domain. (Most resolvers will tend use the server >>that responds fastest, but you should still expect all of your name >>servers to >>get some significant share of the traffic.) >> >> Christopher Bort

Messages In This Thread: Primary vs. Secondary by Joe LeBlanc on May 3, 2000 at 4:21:46 pm Re: Primary vs. Secondary by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on May 3, 2000 at 4:39:59 pm Re: Primary vs. Secondary by Global Homes Webmaster on May 3, 2000 at 5:12:24 pm Re: Primary vs. Secondary by Peter Nilsson on May 4, 2000 at 1:56:04 am Re: Primary vs. Secondary by Peter Lalor on May 7, 2000 at 11:56:56 am Re: Primary vs. Secondary by Men & Mice Support on May 7, 2000 at 12:55:36 pm