Re: Determining Which Authoritative Sever to Use (Bob McDonald)

I have to warn you: Authoritative server selection in DNS is not standardized, and thus it is not guaranteed to be stable even between BIND releases. If you need to make static and/or optimal routing then you need to reach into IP routing layer for that. Petr Špaček On 08. 05. 22 18:57, B

Re: Determining Which Authoritative Sever to Use (Bob McDonald)

On the closest server question it will prefer the closest but a certain percentage will go to servers further away. Additionally depending on the version of BIND and the distance it could lead to the servers further away taking more traffic in high QPS situations. If you are getting high QPS you c

Re: Determining Which Authoritative Sever to Use (Bob McDonald)

Thanks for the answers. A couple more questions and then I'll stand down. First, it's Ben Croswell. Just pointing that out. Second, my reading of the definition of a static-stub zone in the Bvarm indicates that its use is to allow a local copy of the NS list which may differ from the primary zone