timeout value for no response from primary name server

[Barry Margolin]

In article <012101bf09db$00086060$b477a8ce at acmebw.com>,
Cricket Liu <cricket at acmebw.com> wrote:
>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.                                                     ^^^^^^<---\
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>"DNS and BIND" also says explicitly that nslookup's fallback mechanism is  |
>not the same as the BIND resolver's.                                       |
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That explains nslookup, but not "or telnet".--------------------------------/

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