[CLUE-Tech] specifying nameservers

[jason at matchingmoms.com]

I should have been more specific.

I meant to say I've got two computers, one running BIND and the other not.
The one that's not running BIND points to Qwest's DNS servers.  On the one
not running BIND I inserted the address of my server running BIND.  I was
able to resolve outside addresses without problems, and since that didn't
seem right (!), I commented out ALL of the addresses, Qwest's and mine, from
resolv.conf and it still worked.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Price" <davep at kinaole.org>
To: <clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 2:55 AM
Subject: Re: [CLUE-Tech] specifying nameservers


> On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:25:46PM +0000, Jason Friedman wrote:
> > Am I correct in saying that one specifies the nameserver(s) in
> > resolv.conf?
>
> Yes - and reread /etc/resolv.conf by HUPping bind or named, depending on
> your distro.
>
> >
> > What steps are necessary to "restart" the selection process?  In other
> > words, in resolv.conf I've listed nameserver A, B, and C, meaning that
> > the OS will try A first, and if not successful B, etc.  Now I want the
> > OS to try B first, then C, then A.
>
> The bind book describes the algorithm by which name server sequence is
> handled in some detail ... the gist of it seems to be that they are
> initially tried in sequence, but eventually one will become successful,
> and bind will use it until latencies are too bad, then move on to
> another.
>
> aloha (HTH)
> dave
>
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