parallel DNS lookups

Frank Elsner Elsner at zrz.TU-Berlin.DE
Wed Nov 22 15:17:34 UTC 2006


On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:59:49 -0500 Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> If I understand the standard DNS resolver, it sends out DNS queries 
> sequentially to the servers listed in /etc/resolv.conf, after timeouts 
> occur.
> 
> Is there a way to make the resolver query all the listed servers in 
> parallel, and use the first response?

You want to look at http://www.phys.uu.nl/~rombouts/pdnsd/

This works great for me.


--Frank Elsner




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