On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Tiger Technologies wrote:
> At 4/4/01 2:00 PM, OpenSRS wrote:
>
> >Then why does our "primary" nameserver get 5-10 times as many requests
> >from the outside as our "secondary"?
>
> Because it's "faster" for 80-90% of resolvers doing lookups on your
> domain. Perhaps it's on a generally faster connection, or it's
> topologically closer to AOL's resolvers, etc.
No, they are two identical machines sitting right next to each other,
hooked to the same hub. The only difference between the two is the IP
address assigned in the startup script. Same hardware, same OS, same
named setup.
Look, this discussion has become pointless and worse, nothing to do with
this list. Let's just leave at perhaps neither one of us really knows
what the whole story is.
Cliff
