Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: > > On my registrars site I have two DNS servers listing. How would > > I know that 1) both are working. 2) which one is being used. > > For #2, do you mean by the world at large? Which one is being > used when people look up your domain and hosts in your domain? > Both of them should get used. I don't know what algorithm is > used but both will be used by people.
As I understand it, when presented with a list of N>1 possible nameservers standard resolver libraries will pick one at random and continue to use it until something changes (nameserver goes off-line, local cache is flushed, etc.). Robert Huff _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"