timeout value for no response from primary name server

[Cricket Liu]

Mark Conroy <Mark_Conroy at em.fcnbd.com> wrote in message
news:<862567FA.004DE32B.00 at em.fcnbd.com>...
> On page 107 of DNS & BIND(version3), it says that if there are more then
> one name server configured, it queries the first name server in the
> list, with a timeout of 5 seconds, and if it timesout, it will fall back
> to the next name server, waiting 5 seconds.  I am not seeing this
> behavior.  It waits up to 80 seconds if I am using nslookup or telnet to
> a machine.

"DNS and BIND" also says explicitly that nslookup's fallback mechanism is
not the same as the BIND resolver's.

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