<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /></head><body><div data-html-editor-font-wrapper="true" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br>> That looks like, if the stale config options are removed, then NS1<br>> can't get an answer from NS2 at all? Or you are saying that's what<br>> you get if NS2 isn't running and you query NS1 regarding test.com<br>> without the stale config options?<br><br>It would be the latter, I removed stale configs from NS1, and shut down NS2. Then verified NS1 cache still has an entry for test.com, and queried NS1 for test.com<br><signature>Basically, NS1 does not utilize its own cache at all!<br><br>Regards<br>Hamid Maadani</signature></div></body></html>