> I only raise the issues about primary and secondary because all my > domains have dns.skywaves.net as the primary. That is a deicated > name server on a DS3, and it is never remotely overloaded. But > dns.skywaves.com, on a separate line at home, gets an awful lot of > inquiries.
Yep, as you said, I explained this none-too-strange phenom. If dns.skywaves.com is significantly less responsive due to local load or line speed, you're already getting some amount of load-based recursor query distribution. If you care to "reserve" dns.skywaves.com further, you could add one or two more IPs to dns.skywaves.net and add more NSs to the mix. This will (on average only, of course) skew traffic more toward the "primary." (Yet the cost of such an attractive tactic is that if dns.skywaves.net goes *completely* down, then you have 3 out of 4 published records not functioning instead of 1 out of 2, making for slower performance when you're in a failed-over state.) --Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/release/ Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange or IMail mailboxes into IMail Aliases! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/download/release/ http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/ldap2aliases/download/release/ --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
