North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: How common is lack of DNS server diversity?
> From: Tony Rall [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 10:54 AM > > >MS DNS, WinNT4 and below, have broken search algorithm > implementations. > >DDNS, Win2K, is currently untested. > > Search algorithm? I thought we were talking about making > full use of the > dns server list - i.e., if first server doesn't respond try > the next one in > the list. I think, *that* is called a search algorithm. Try it at root level, with WinNT, you'll find that it doesn't work. Better yet, try it with BIND8 (*nix, of course) too, and compare the results. If your test doesn't produce the same results, please send test-plan, scripts, and methods to me. I'd be very interested. |