Could it be that you have a lame server listed among the servers in your /etc/resolv.conf?
Ramin On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 03:35:23PM -0400, Michael Montero wrote: > Anyone know why the following might happen: > > I run nslookup and I get something like: > temporary failure in name resolution > > Then I run dig on a few domains and suddenly nslookup works fine. However > after a while, nslookup starts to fail again. Essentially this is causing > a lot of problems on my firewall box. Things start failing left and right > because look ups don't seem to work properly. Has anyone experience this > before? > > I hate to have to run a cron that every minute digs a few domains. For > now, that's what I've resolved to doing and I hate it! Any help would be > appreciated. > >
