Roberto Carna <robertocarn...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear, I have to balance two DNS servers for a special reason.

https://www.powerdns.com/dnsdist.html

> The DNS clients are a mix of Windows, Cisco and Linux machines, so I
> think they ask for a FQDN using UDP and after that -if there is no
> response-, they ask the same FQDN using TCP, and so the load balancing
> will be succesful.

No, fallback to TCP relies on receiving a truncated UDP response. You
never want a DNS client to be waiting around for a response that will
not arrive.

Tony.
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