> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:27:15PM -0700, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
>> How many nameservers are listed in that machine's /etc/resolv.conf?
>
> There are three, but the second and third nameservers should only
> be tried if queries to the previous ones timed out.
I personaly prefer a caching resolver ( djb dnscache or unbound )
on every host.
> It does have a search list with six entries. I wonder if that's the
> problem. I could eliminate most of them.
On servers I also dislike "search foo.bar" in /etc/resolv.conf
Searches produce so many useless queries...
my resolv.conf looks simply like this:
"nameserver ::1"
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Viele Grüße
Andreas Schulze
Received on Tue May 17 2011 - 14:40:34 PST