Different handling of referrals by dig and nslookup

Dave Sparro dsparro at gmail.com
Tue Feb 16 18:27:56 UTC 2010


On 2/13/2010 9:42 PM, kalpesh varyani wrote:
> Hi Rick,
>
> I am aware that it is a somewhat odd (but not incorrect, am I right ?) 
> to put a non-recursive name server in the resolv.conf but I am not 
> able to understand the behavioral difference of ping/dig and nslookup.
>
> But logically shouldn't it be moving to the next name server when the 
> first one fails even in the case of ping and dig. This is what, I 
> think, one would expect from a resolver.

The first server in resolv.conf didn't fail.  It just didn't give you 
the answer you wanted.

-- 
Dave



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