Resolv.conf not querying correctly?

Bjarte Nilsen bork at bork.net
Thu Sep 30 18:00:41 UTC 1999



Pradiman_K_Pandita wrote:

> there is no entry for the dns domain  name in your resolv.conf
>
> should be something like this
>
> domain  abc.com
> nameserver 193.1.12.1
> ...........................
>
> Regards,
> -pk

Tnx for the tip, but i had stripped the file down.  It _do_ include a domain
entry:

domain bork.net


Try to put the ip address of a non-nameserver first in your resolv.conf, and run
nslookup -d2

You'll see that it timeout 4 times first, before the next nameserver is queried.

/bjarte



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