Re: large organization nameservers sending icmp packets to dns servers.

[Duane Wessels <wessels () packet-pushers com>]

On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, John Levine said:

> Why would they ping rather than just sending the query to all of the
> NS and see which one answers first?  It's an IP round trip either way.

ping targets are of the caching nameserver type, not the authoritative
nameserver type.

Duane W.