> My understanding is that the RTT-based forwarder selection is "banded", 
> so that if a bunch of forwarders' RTTs all fall within the same "band" 
> they'll be used either randomly, or in a strict round-robin fashion.

As I understand it that was a feature of BIND8, not BIND9.

(It'll be coming back, though, courtesy of the Kaminsky flaw.  Selecting
servers from within an RTT band could give us an extra bit or two of
randomness for each query.)

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Evan Hunt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.

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