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Khaled
Asked: 2010-12-13 03:06:15 +0800 CST

Dynamic /etc/resolv.conf file?

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I have several Ubuntu servers. Two of them are working as DNS servers. One of my name servers (let's call it DNS1) went down for maintenance. I sill had another DNS server running (DNS2).

All other servers are configured to use the nameservers as follows

/etc/resolv.conf :

nameserver DNS1
nameserver DNS2

I can still resolve DNS names using the DNS2 server, but the name resolution takes a long time. It is clear to me that any given server is first trying to access DNS1, and then it is trying DNS2 after failure.

I tried to swap the two lines. The name resolution became too fast.

I am wondering if there is a way to dynamically change the resolv.conf file based on the state of the configured nameservers. Of course, I can write a shell script myself to do the job. But I prefer to find a better way if there is one.

server dns resolv.conf

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    No a direct solution but you can smooth things a little by adding options to your resolv.conf for instance :

    nameserver DNS1
nameserver DNS2

options rotate
options timeout:2
options attempts:1

    the default for timeout is 5 seconds, and default value for attempts is 2.

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