How does bind 9.x chooses root servers?

2014-09-19 Thread Jittinan Suwanruengsri
Hi, How does bind 9.x chooses root servers? This is sample result from tcpdump on Bind 9.x .From this result it means bind chooses root servers base on weight of response time. It does not choose the lowest response time server. Do I understand correctly? 2 a.root

Re: How does bind 9.x chooses root servers?

2014-09-19 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 19.09.14 15:57, Jittinan Suwanruengsri wrote: How does bind 9.x chooses root servers? based on RTT, with ocasional re-tries of other servers try googling for bind server selection -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uh...@fantomas.sk ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail

Re: How does bind 9.x chooses root servers?

2014-09-19 Thread Mukund Sivaraman
Hi Jittinan On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 03:57:32PM +0700, Jittinan Suwanruengsri wrote: How does bind 9.x chooses root servers? The question is better phrased as How does BIND choose name servers? The SRTT selection method used by BIND is not quite described anywhere in an ISC document