On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Ryan McBride wrote: > On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 09:15:44PM +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 11:58:39AM -0600, Tim Pushor wrote: > > > Only question is to whether or not to use the/a carp address for the DNS. > > > > It will work, but as noted, there's no particular reason to do this; > > redundancy is built into the DNS protocol. > > There are some broken resolvers *cough*OS X*cough* which will not > correctly round-robin through the list of DNS servers, or will cache the > IP of the first server that responds and continue to try that address.
IIRC Some resolvers seem to always try the first resolver, and only fall back to subsequent ones after a fairly long timeout. -d
