[CLUE-Tech] specifying nameservers

[Dave Price]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 04:56:46PM -0700, Dave Anselmi wrote:
> 
> Umm, I don't have the book handy, but I think resolv.conf is used by
> resolvers (the client piece), not named.  Nameservers use the root
> nameservers and NS records they find to figure out where they send queries -
> and they do have an algorithm for handling multiple NS records, as you said.
> 
> resolv.conf is used by libc (e.g., gethostbyname(3)) and nslookup (which may
> use libc, I don't know).

no, you are right ... I was thinking about something completely
different when I wrote that, but the bit about the resolver hanging on
to a good nameserver is correct.

aloha,
dave

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