On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 06:32:09AM -0500, Martin McCormick <[email protected]> wrote a message of 39 lines which said:
> Example: > > nameserver 139.78.100.1 > nameserver 139.78.200.1 I always add: timeout:1 because the default timeout is 5 seconds, much too important to allow for a smooth fallback. Other options could be interesting, such as "rotate". See resolv.conf(5). Unlike the failure of an authoritative name server, the failure of a resolver is not really transparent for the Unix stub resolver, as you have discovered. You may consider solutions using a redundancy at layer 3 such as VRRP or CARP. _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

