Long time getting to secondary server

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

	nslookup uses a different timeout algorithm to the resolver
	library.

	Mark

> If I kill named on my primary server (IBM) and
> do an nslookup on another machine it takes about
> 70 seconds to get to the secondary server. The secondary server does
> finally return the results.
> This is true on both IBM and Sun machines. I
> have both machines in the resolv.conf file.
> What is going on. Obviously a timeout, but I thought the timeout was
> supposed to be about 5 seconds? Is there somewhere to set this timeout?
> Did I expain this well enough?
> 
> Doug Snowden
> 
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