Dave,
I think the trick may be whether or not the DNS server that handles the
client requests round-robins the cache. It appears that Windows 2003
DNS does do this, and BIND also appears to do this based on tests that I
just did.
So maybe it does spread things evenly. I don't operate my own
secondary, so I can't compare the traffic.
Matt
Dave Doherty wrote:
Hi Matt-
In any event, the root servers will return a list of name servers. If
the first name server returned is offline, then the DNS client should
try the second, regardless of which is considered "primary" and which
is "secondary" as far as the registrar is concerned.
I only raise the issues about primary and secondary because all my
domains have dns.skywaves.net as the primary. That is a deicated name
server on a DS3, and it is never remotely overloaded. But
dns.skywaves.com, on a separate line at home, gets an awful lot of
inquiries.
-d
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