Resolv.conf not querying correctly?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <37F3A549.DC99861 at bork.net>, Bjarte Nilsen  <bork at bork.net> wrote:
>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.

As we told someone who asked almost the same question 2 days ago, nslookup
doesn't use the same retry algorithm as the resolver library.  If you want
to know what the resolver does, run tcpdump while you run a network
application.

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