strange resolver behavior on Solaris 8 client

[Neil W Rickert]

"bob_a_booie" <bob_a_booie at excite.com> writes:

>Host serverb will take at least 15 minutes for any dynamic updates
>to resolve correctly via ping or nslookup.

>Host servera will take no more then 2 minutes for any dynamic updates
>to resolve correctly via ping or nslookup.

Am I allowed to guess?

Here is my guess:

  Host serverb is running nscd (name service caching daemon),
  and nscd is caching hosts lookups.

  Host servera either is not running nscd, or is not caching
  hosts lookups.

"/etc/nscd.conf" should indicate whether hosts lookups are
cached by nscd.  Use "ps -ef | grep nscd" to see if nscd
is running.