Re: Different handling of referrals by dig and nslookup

2010-02-13 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/13/10 18:42, 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 There are certain very specific circumstances where you might want to do this, but in general I can't see any reason

Re: Different handling of referrals by dig and nslookup

2010-02-13 Thread kalpesh varyani
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

Re: Different handling of referrals by dig and nslookup

2010-02-13 Thread Rick Dicaire
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:07 PM, kalpesh varyani wrote: > From a third linux system, I try name resolution using dig or nslookup. > In this system, I have resolv.conf as: > > nameserver A > nameserver B Just out of curiosity, why do you have a non recursing name server in resolv.conf? -- aRDy

Different handling of referrals by dig and nslookup

2010-02-13 Thread kalpesh varyani
Hi all, I have named 9.4.3-P3 running on 2 linux systems(A & B). A has recursion disabled and the B has recursion enabled. >From a third linux system, I try name resolution using dig or nslookup. In this system, I have resolv.conf as: nameserver A nameserver B When I try to resolve names, using