Subject: Re: DNS servers on windows

Re: DNS servers on windows

From: William Ahern <william_at_25thandclement.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:42:13 -0700

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 03:41:25PM +0200, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
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> >Lastly I think it'd be good to filter the list of DNS servers and remove
> >duplicate entries. If there's consensus that this is a good idea I can put
> >together a patch that does this.
>
> I can't see any benefit from having duplicates, no. Is this common?
>

glibc has a "rotate" option, which cycles through nameservers. Using
duplicates, you can weigh some nameservers more heavily than others.
Received on 2013-04-23