/etc/resolv.conf with 3 nameservers

2006-04-10 Thread guru
Hi, The man page of resolv.conf claims: The different configuration options are: nameserver Internet address (in dot notation) of a name server that the resolver should query. Up to MAXNS (currently 3) name servers may be listed, one per

Re: /etc/resolv.conf with 3 nameservers

2006-04-10 Thread Ken Stevenson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The man page of resolv.conf claims: The different configuration options are: nameserver Internet address (in dot notation) of a name server that the resolver should query. Up to MAXNS (currently 3) name servers may be

Re: /etc/resolv.conf with 3 nameservers

2006-04-10 Thread guru
El día Monday, April 10, 2006 a las 10:44:52AM -0400, Ken Stevenson escribió: I think the problem is that once your first server responds with a domain not found, that's considered an answer to your query. It doesn't try another DNS server just to see if it gets a different answer. If you

Re: /etc/resolv.conf with 3 nameservers

2006-04-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El día Monday, April 10, 2006 a las 10:44:52AM -0400, Ken Stevenson escribió: I think the problem is that once your first server responds with a domain not found, that's considered an answer to your query. It doesn't try another DNS server just to see if it gets a

Re: /etc/resolv.conf with 3 nameservers

2006-04-10 Thread guru
El día Monday, April 10, 2006 a las 04:07:34PM +0100, Alex Zbyslaw escribió: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El día Monday, April 10, 2006 a las 10:44:52AM -0400, Ken Stevenson escribió: I think the problem is that once your first server responds with a domain not found, that's

Re: /etc/resolv.conf with 3 nameservers

2006-04-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El día Monday, April 10, 2006 a las 04:07:34PM +0100, Alex Zbyslaw escribió: There's nothing to stop you configuring that local nameserver to use your two backups for names that it cannot resolve. You could then leave the two backups in /etc/resolv.conf but if

Re: /etc/resolv.conf with 3 nameservers

2006-04-10 Thread Charles Swiger
On Apr 10, 2006, at 9:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ cat /etc/resolv.conf domain Sisis.de nameserver 10.0.1.201 nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx nameserver yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy But only the 1st one (10.0.1.201) is contacted to make the name lookup (I've checked this with trussing a 'ping