Long time getting to secondary server

[Barry Margolin]

In article <3873A376.77200AD4 at ncdc.noaa.gov>,
Doug Snowden  <dsnowden at ncdc.noaa.gov> wrote:
>If I kill named on my primary server (IBM) and
>do an nslookup on another machine it takes about
>70 seconds to get to the secondary server. The secondary server does
>finally return the results.
>This is true on both IBM and Sun machines. I
>have both machines in the resolv.conf file.
>What is going on. Obviously a timeout, but I thought the timeout was
>supposed to be about 5 seconds? Is there somewhere to set this timeout?
>Did I expain this well enough?

nslookup does things in a different order than the resolver does.  It tries
the first server multiple times before going to the second server.  The
resolver tries each server once, then tries them each with a longer
timeout.

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