The fix will be to only go onto the next element of the search list on nxdomain. Searches really should stop on REFUSED, SERVFAIL, NOERROR, NOTIMP. You move onto the next nameserver on REFUSED, SERVFAIL, NOTIMP. -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka at isc.org