REQUEST: Network Interface Failover and multi-DNS resolution

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Thursday, August 12, 2004 11:29 PM +0100 Carlos Rodrigues 
<carlos.efr at mail.telepac.pt> wrote:

> My best take at solving this is having a flag or configuration option
> somewhere that changes the resolver's "query DNS server only when
> previous is down" behavior to "query DNS server when first gives a
> negative answer". And then have the distro's network scripts adding the
> DNS servers that come from the other interfaces by DHCP added to
> resolv.conf if the second behavior is selected.

You might want to ask about this on the ISC BIND list (after checking its 
archives). I'm sure the subject comes up regularly there. Any proposed 
change to resolver behavior should start there.