Hi, A question regarding BIND defaults. I'd love the same answer for other nameserver software if anyone cares to share.
I am a recursive nameserver. I am looking for foo.bar.com. i've learned from bar.com that foo.bar.com has four NS records. I've never tried to talk to these servers before. I send a query to the address listed in the first NS record. I never get an answer? How long do I wait before trying the next one? I looked through several RFCs but couldn't find anything specific in the spec. RFC1035 mentions that choosing this timeout would be up to nameserver implementors and suggests 5-10 seconds as a reasonable default. my google-fu is failing me on this one. I found something at Microsoft that suggests that their DNS server waits 3 seconds although i may have interpreted that wrong. I found a reference to a nameserver called "deadwood" that defaults to 2 seconds. But, I couldn't find anything on BIND. thanks, danno -- Dan Pritts, Sr. Systems Engineer Internet2 office: +1-734-352-4953 | mobile: +1-734-834-7224 _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
