From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 30 10:24:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA14617 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:24:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.webnology.com (mercury.webnology.com [209.155.51.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA14607 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:24:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jooji@webnology.com) Received: from localhost (jooji@localhost) by mercury.webnology.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA05819; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 12:23:39 -0600 (envelope-from jooji@webnology.com) Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 12:23:39 -0600 (CST) From: "Jasper O'Malley" To: Tim Moony cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird DNS (NT) behavior In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Tim Moony wrote: > I have a question: is nslookup supposed to query the name servers in the > /etc/resolv.conf in its listed order? Yes. > So I setup a cache server in order to communicate with the world. Strange > enough, the cache server works just fine. The cache server doesn't look a resolv.conf. It looks at the named hints file for the addresses of the root nameservers, and queries the world directly. > Is it my problem or is it my > ISP's problem? Has anyone experiencing the same problem? Probably your ISP's. I couldn't get a response from ns2.flashcom.com using nslookup. Cheers, Mick The Reverend Jasper P. O'Malley dotdot:jooji@webnology.com Systems Administrator ringring:asktheadmiral Webnology, LLC woowoo:http://www.webnology.com/~jooji To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message