Help on NXDOMAIN to try next forwarder in the list

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.383.1369900599.20661.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
 Ashok Agarwal <ashokagarwal.smit at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry, its not */etc/hosts* file rather its */etc/resolv.conf*.
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Ashok Agarwal
> <ashokagarwal.smit at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > One possible way can also be to set the number of nameservers to be looked
> > upon in the /etc/hosts file.
> >
> > nameserver 8.8.8.8
> > nameserver 4.4.2.2
> > nameserver 4.1.2.2

No. /etc/resolv.conf failover only happens on errors, not NXDOMAIN 
responses.

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Barry Margolin
Arlington, MA