Win95 machine not looking at 2nd and 3rd DNS

Thu Mar 9 17:56:35 UTC 2000

I think this has come up before and was determined to be a misunderstanding
about the multiple resolvers in the local equivalent of resolv.conf.  The
correct behavior is as you described - if the resolver on W95 receives any
response from DNS#1 it will _not_ go to DNS#2 or DNS#3.  It is only when
there is no response from DNS#1 that it will go to DNS#2.

You could achieve what you appear to desire by configuring your internal
DNS to use the ISP's DNS as 'forwarder' DNS machines.  Then your internal
DNS will check itself first, then ask the ISP's DNS to resolve what it
can't resolve and return the answer to the W98 machines.

YMMV

nobody <nobody at nowhere.com> on 03/09/2000 11:36:19 AM

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 Subject: Win95 machine not looking at 2nd and 3rd DNS        

Hi All

I have a Win 95 machine which is set up to look at 3 DNS servers.  The
first is our internal, and the second and third are the ISP's.  If I
look for a web address, the machine will query only the internal then
give up (checked this with a packet sniffer).

The internal DNS is sat on a linux box and serves subdomains beneath our
internet registered domain (ie. registed domain foo.com, this box does
london.foo.com and paris.foo.com).  The machine has no zone for root
".".

However, other machines I have seem to work fine (a linux box (not the
name server), and an NT box.  I'v done a quick test and it seems I have
the same problem with another win95 machine as well.

Any ideas (i'm sure it was working before)

Mark Taylor