Andrew Sullivan (ajs) writes: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 03:04:27PM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote: > > What do the DNS experts say about best practices for DNS failover in > > the stub resolver? > > I doubt I qualify as one of "the DNS experts", but what I have to say > about this is, "OMG, what a mess." None of the fallback options works > well in practice. Also, of course, your application may or may not > pay attention to changes in /etc/resolv.conf when you change networks. > > I wish I had something happier to say.
If your resolver is your CPE/GW, doesn't really matter if you have a backup. In other cases (read: larger them home and SME) I've used Anycast. _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list dns-operations@lists.dns-oarc.net https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations dns-jobs mailing list https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs