DNS primary and secondaries...

[Chris J. Mutter]

Bill Larson <wllarso at swcp.com> wrote:
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| Have you configured your clients to use the secondary?  For a Unix
| system, this would be in the /etc/resolv.conf file.  For Windows, this
| information is in the Start->Settings->Control Panel->Network and then
| select TCP/IP->Properties->DNS Configuration.  For a Mac, you need to
| look in either the MacTCP or TCP/IP control panel.  For any of these
| systems, you should have the IP address of both the primary and
| secondary name servers listed.
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as much as I found out Win 3.x/9.x/NT _usually_ does NOT query the secondary
when you have it in the dns-configuration.  on MACs I _never_ saw it working
when the primary wasnt reachable that the client switched over to the sec.
dns server. .. -> broken dns implementaions? not that I care too much... ;^)

cjm