At 09:49 AM 5/3/2002 -0700, Steve Deering wrote: >A couple questions, from one who is expert in neither DNS nor DHCP: >Do the bulk of DHCP servers today provide more than one DNS server >address to each client?
Yup. >If so, do "consumer-level" IP devices (PCs, >laptops, PDAs, cell phones, etc.) really make sophisticated choices >among those multiple DNS servers, or do they just pick one and then, >only if that one fails to respond, try another? I can't give an authoritative answer - my understanding is that ost devices just pick one and only try another if the currently selected server fails to respond... - Ralph -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
