Search Again: Re: Registrars and the WHOIS From: Len Conrad Date: Saturday, October 11, 2003 Time: 9:39:09 am >After adding the nameservers, they may not be listed in the order entered. >The order of the nameservers is not relevant, however, you may alter the >order in the section "Manage Name Servers" above. the DNS answering a query determines the physical order of the records in the response packet. In BIND, the default ordering is cyclical (rotating). The physical order of the records in zone file determines nothing about the order of the records received by queriers. >However, this makes me wonder how in the world do DNS servers out there know >where my primary is "primary" only makes sense per zone, not per server. The mname field of a zone's SOA record should list the zone's "primary master", and that NS in the MNAME field is re-enforced as primary master if that NS is also listed in zone's NS records, and of course, those much match the NS records on the DNS authoritative for the zone's parent. "delegation data and zone data must match" >, it is not like a MX where this is a preference. I have >always thought my primary is ns1.hostwizard.com In DNS technolgoy, there is no such thing a primary server, only a primary for a zone. Len

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