Search Again: Re: Registrars and the WHOIS From: Men & Mice Support Date: Saturday, October 11, 2003 Time: 9:35:16 am At 12:16 AM -0700 10/11/03, Scott Haneda wrote: >However, this makes me wonder how in the world do DNS servers out there know >where my primary is, it is not like a MX where this is a preference. I have >always thought my primary is ns1.hostwizard.com, but I can see nothing >anywhere that would let another server know to look there first. They don't. They pick one at random*, or if they have any recent experience talking to your servers, they will tend to pick whichever's fastest. As far as other DNS servers are concerned, you don't have primary and secondary DNS servers. You have a collection of equivalent name servers. * As far as I know (I could be wrong on this), this is not actually true in any real sense. They "randomly" pick whichever is listed first in the delegation records from the TLD servers, on the theory that the TLD servers will round-robin them and thus make their choice truly random. Unfortunately, the com & net TLD servers no longer do this. Instead, they simply give out records in whatever order they have them in their zone files, which is determined by unknown means by Network Solutions. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy

Messages In This Thread: Registrars and the WHOIS by Scott Haneda on Oct 10, 2003 at 10:49:28 pm Re: Registrars and the WHOIS by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Oct 10, 2003 at 11:39:44 pm Re: Registrars and the WHOIS by Scott Haneda on Oct 11, 2003 at 12:14:01 am Re: Registrars and the WHOIS by Scott Haneda on Oct 11, 2003 at 12:19:34 am Re: Registrars and the WHOIS by Men & Mice Support on Oct 11, 2003 at 9:35:16 am Re: Registrars and the WHOIS by Len Conrad on Oct 11, 2003 at 9:39:09 am Re: Registrars and the WHOIS by Len Conrad on Oct 11, 2003 at 9:49:13 am Re: Registrars and the WHOIS by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Oct 12, 2003 at 9:11:05 am