Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.lightlink.com!news.iecc.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:50:56 -0500 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux.slackware Subject: Re: Only some IPs accessable? References: <2hpim8x384.ln2@news.roaima.co.uk> <87ty7av2ar.fld@apaflo.com> From: floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) Organization: __________ Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 08:50:48 -0800 Message-ID: <87lismurkn.fld@apaflo.com> User-Agent: gnus 5.10.6/XEmacs 21.4.15/Linux 2.6.27 Cancel-Lock: sha1:9gkKzYJiuNUk5TLrjbY5g5Z4Ohw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lines: 29 X-Trace: sv3-rg0KYhGFFiqrPiJTvRMENoGvvKt07qaoUm/u2fkturMxgnMJPBq008dVvd/c3slSHDM2zY3sgQMx9U2!axF1e7n5suoZ0WHQIhiALA2f3FPIPcRUw2G70AHSurSlrqmqeAMgrduGF5ksEw== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2395 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.linux.networking:703 Jorgen Grahn wrote: >On Sat, 2011-10-15, Floyd L. Davidson wrote: >> >> That should not happen. This quote is from the >> RESOLV.CONF(5) man page: >... >> The gist is that there is no point in listing more than >> 3 name servers. But in any event the first one is the >> only one that will ever be queried if the first query is >> successful, > >Where "successful" includes "you got a response, and it said there is >no such name in DNS". > >> which also assumes that either there is no >> local DNS server or that it has failed. > >What do you mean here? As far as I can tell, resolv.conf is used even >if there is a local name server running. From the text of the man page as quoted in my previous article: "On a normally configured system this file should not be necessary. The only name server to be queried will be on the local machine; [...]" -- Floyd L. Davidson Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@apaflo.com