Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 16:07:34 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Matthias.Apitz@Sisis.de Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/resolv.conf with 3 nameservers Message-ID: <443A74B6.20003@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <20060410145154.GA11743@rebelion.Sisis.de> References: <20060410135448.GA10388@rebelion.Sisis.de> <443A6F64.70701@allenmyland.com> <20060410145154.GA11743@rebelion.Sisis.de>
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guru@Sisis.de wrote: >El d=EDa Monday, April 10, 2006 a las 10:44:52AM -0400, Ken Stevenson es= cribi=F3: > > =20 > >>I think the problem is that once your first server responds with a=20 >>"domain not found", that's considered an answer to your query. It=20 >>doesn't try another DNS server just to see if it gets a different=20 >>answer. If you were to disable the DNS server on 10.0.1.201, then it=20 >>would use xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx or yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy to resolve the query. >> =20 >> > >Yes, you're right. It is said in (...) that the fall down only works >on timeout. I did not read carefully enough, stupid as I am. :-( > =20 > There's nothing to stop you configuring that local nameserver to use=20 your two "backups" for names that it cannot resolve. You could then leave the two backups in /etc/resolv.conf but if your=20 local nameserver is authoritative for your local domain, then you=20 probably want to know if it goes away, and those backups won't be able=20 to look up names in your local domain. I'm making some assumptions about why you set things up this way in the=20 first place, and I may be wrong, but there's too little info in your=20 post to give definitive suggestions. --Alex
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