To:
<dnsop@cafax.se>, "Peter Gradwell" <peter@gradwell.com>
From:
"Cricket Liu" <Cricket@verisign.com>
Date:
Tue, 21 Nov 2000 12:49:12 -0700
Sender:
owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject:
Re: placement of secondary name servers for .uk.
> One final question. Randy posted a traceroute to ns0.ja.net. However, > for .uk. we have ns.uu.net and ns.eu.net, which might be "closer" to > randy (for this example). Which server would Randy prefer to use? > Do resolvers take the "closest?". AFAIK, from reading "DNS & BIND" > it's all rather random. Thoughts? Does this randomness affect the placement > of the servers? No, BIND name servers will tend to use the closest of a set of authoritative name servers, as measured by roundtrip time. (It's in the book.) cricket