Re: DNS problem (forwarding order?)

[Peter Jones <pjones redhat com>]

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 12:06 -0700, David MacMahon wrote:
[snip]
> nameserver 127.0.0.1
> 
> If I change /etc/resolve.conf to...
> 
> nameserver 10.12.0.1
> nameserver <ip of dns2>
> nameserver <ip of dns3>
> 
> ...then "host 10.12.50.12" always succeeds.  This leads me to believe 
> that the forwarders listed in the named.conf file are not always used in 
> the given order.

Are you running nscd?

If you're using bind+forwarders _and_ nscd, that'll effectively mean
that the round robin behavior only applies to new queries; repeated
queries will always be resolved from the cache.
-- 
        Peter