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.
> 
> 

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