Darren:

Try these options in the /etc/resolv.conf to help mitigate the issues
you mentioned.
options retrans:1
options retry:2

HTH,

Bill

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-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Darren
Dunham
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 4:15 PM
To: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Dumb question

> 
> Thanks Paul - yah, my resolv.conf file has those settings in it, but
maybe I
> need to include the nameserver for the other domain.  I'll try that,
and see
> if it works. 

In general, you cannot add additonal nameservers to resolv.conf for the
purpose of finding additional hosts.  Every nameserver in the file must
know about *all* of the hosts you want to find.

Otherwise the first one says "no such record" and the machine will never
ask any of the other servers...

Or potentially worse, occasionally you get a timeout which leads to a
different answer!

-- 
Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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