[Dnsmasq-discuss] Upstream server selection and caching strategies with redundant --server directives

[Mike Valentine]

Given this:

server=/example.com/172.16.16.5
server=/example.com/172.16.16.6

Without strict-order or all-servers, queries for other zones try to 
prefer the fastest upstream resolver without sending too many redundant 
queries. I like this behavior. It doesn't seem to apply to queries to 
the example.com zone when you configure it like this, though. It ends up 
behaving like all-servers is turned on for that zone.

I was thinking that the built-in cache might reduce the spam caused by 
the behavior I described above, but it seems like responses for zones 
configured like this don't get cached.

What do you guys think?