Failing Forwarders

[Barry Margolin]

In article <199908061534.KAA08152 at asenec.dallas.nationwide.net>,
 <asenec at asenec.dallas.nationwide.net> wrote:
>I'm using the forwarders directive under 
>4.9.7, and it works--for the first forwarder
>in the list.  nslookup's using the other
>ipaddresses in the forwarders list work, 
>that is, 'nslookup $domain $forwarder, but for
>some reason only the first forwarder in the list
>is queried by the nameserver on queries to the
>local nameserver with forwarding configured into it.

Is the first forwarder up?  The only time you go to other forwarders is if
you don't get any response from the first one.  If you get a response, you
stop querying, even if the response says "No such host."

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