DNS question

From: Jonathan Williams (jonathw_at_shubertorg.com)
Date: 06/27/03

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    Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 12:02:41 -0400
To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov

    Ok. I've got one alphaserver (tru64 5.1a) here configured as a master DNS
    server, and another (tru64 5.1b) configured as a slave DNS server. Today we had
    to bring the master server offline for a while, and when we did this we noticed
    some DNS issues cropped up.

    All of our other servers (running tru64 5.1b patchkit 2) are clients of these
    two DNS servers. One would assume that if the master is offline, then the
    clients would just go to the slave for name resolution. Well...it does do that,
    but there is a HUGE delay (about a minute maybe) when you do an nslookup (for
    example). And after that delay it will tell you that the attempt to connect to
    the master server timed out, and then the response from the slave server comes
    right up. But this happens everytime you try to do any DNS lookups...not just
    the first time. We went and took out the master server from the list of DNS
    servers for the clients, and then everything worked fine.

    So my question is, are there any tweakables for this sort of thing? Can I
    shorten the timeout period, or something like that? I went through the Network
    Administration: Services guide...but couldn't really find any configuration
    files that might effect this. Thanks in advance. =)

    Jonathan Williams
    Unix Systems Administrator
    The Shubert Organization, Inc.

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