From: Ben Beuchler (insytegmail.com)
Date: Tue Jan 02 2007 - 16:14:15 CST

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> Perhaps the proper question is "Why am I getting a 'host not found' error
> just because my DNS server (the first in my list) cannot connect to the
> remote DNS server" Is this the proper operation - to report a "host not
> found" when the first DNS server in /etc/resolv.conf cannot connect to the
> DNS of the domain I am trying to send to?

Yes; the client trusts that if it receives a response from the domain
server than it must be the correct response. If you have a DNS server
that doesn't work or only partially works, it should not be used at
all, as there is no mechanism to identify potentially "bad" results.

-Ben

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