In article <mailman.373.1580138823.733.bind-us...@lists.isc.org>, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw...@ithnet.com> wrote:
> Hello all, > > I ran across a question I did not really expect. I am using bind 9.14.1 as > normal, standalone nameserver. When trying to resolve a certain domain I get a > SERVFAIL (with nslookup). Deeper inspection of the problem shows that the > domain uses 2 nameservers, where one works perfectly well, the other does not > know the domain at all. > I would have expected that bind finds the domain by using the working > nameserver and ignoring the dead one. But obviously it does not. > Did I misconfigure something? I thought both nameservers should be questioned > and the first working result be used, or not? Not quite. It performs failover if the first nameserver doesn't respond. But if it gets a response, it uses the response, even if it reports an error. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
