[FC3] Sites 'disappearing' from DNS

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 06:21, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> > Hey Brian, can you give us an example domain that you experienced the
> > problem with, and I guess that way we can see if it is the DNS for that
> > domain that is struggling, or infer that it is your upstream DNS
> > provider's server that is slow.
> 
>     Sure: hardware.slashdot.org, jobsearch.monster.com...there may have
> been others, but I don't recall'em.  These are both sites I'd visit at
> least once a day, and 'host' called'em up, but Firefox didn't- that's
> what made it seem so weird.  (And I'd completely forgotten that I'd
> turned on nscd....)

Does your /etc/resolv.conf contain more than one nameserver entry?  If
you are having trouble with failures, I'd try more entries even if you
have to point them back at the same server to get another chance.

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  Les Mikesell
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