Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 19:17:39 +0200 From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
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It gets even better - recursing nameservers have the habit of locking in to nameservers that respond quickest. So you even get some loadbalancing awareness.
Odd. I've investigated this effect (well aware of it in theory) with stateside-only machines, and DNS frequently returns a horrible choice. Maybe caching prevents enough authoritative answers from being returned to cancel out the noise, but I've seen the opposite of what you report.
We operate nameservers in the US and in Europe, and we definitely see this effect.
Maybe it works well over different continents, but simple "use different IPs from different NS" has not given desirable results in my experience. Then we have the failover and TTL issues... Eddy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita/(Inter)national Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:23:58 +0000 (GMT) From: A Trap <blacklist@brics.com> To: blacklist@brics.com Subject: Please ignore this portion of my mail signature. These last few lines are a trap for address-harvesting spambots. Do NOT send mail to <blacklist@brics.com>, or you are likely to be blocked.