RE: How common is lack of DNS server diversity?

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer () mhsc com>]

> From: Tony Rall [mailto:trall () almaden ibm com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 10:54 AM
>
> > MS DNS, WinNT4 and below, have broken search algorithm 
> implementations.
> > DDNS, Win2K, is currently untested.
>
> Search algorithm?  I thought we were talking about making 
> full use of the
> dns server list - i.e., if first server doesn't respond try 
> the next one in
> the list.

I think, *that* is called a search algorithm. Try it at root level, with
WinNT, you'll find that it doesn't work. Better yet, try it with BIND8
(*nix, of course) too, and compare the results.

If your test doesn't produce the same results, please send test-plan,
scripts, and methods to me. I'd be very interested.