[dns-operations] Best practices for Linux/UNIX stub resolver failover

[Klaus Darilion]

I agree with the bad behavior of the stub resolver.

On 22.04.2014 21:04, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> 2. Use a local DNS daemon on every server with forwarders configured
>     to the network's nameservers, and fix resolv.conf to 127.0.0.1.

The problem here is that you add another single point of failure - your 
local resolver. If it crashes and is not automatically restarted (which 
is the case for default Unbound and Bind installations) your DNS is 
broken too.

regards
Klaus