I guess without intervention of application, c-ares library sends the query
to secondary name-server. It does after it times out with primary
name-server. The timeout and number of retries are configurable as well.
--Ravi
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:39 AM, govardhan sn <govardhan.sn_at_gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Does ares post the query to the secondary dns server, if it fails to
> resolve the query by the first dns server (primary) with out the
> intervention of application
> and gives the result to application or application has to do so. if
> ares itself posts the
> query to secondary dns server under what scenario it will do so.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Regards,
> Govardhan
>
Received on 2008-10-11