Re: DNS lookup with Netscape 4.5, 4.51 and 4.6

[Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com>]

On 31-May-99 Adam Rice wrote:
> Quoting Adam Rice (wysiwyg@glympton.airtime.co.uk):
>> Quoting Stephan Engelke (engelke@math.uni-hamburg.de):
>> > If so, what might cause the problem - what could I do to solve it?
>> 
>> It appears to me that Netscape's host lookup behaviour has changed so it is
>> not looking in /etc/hosts before asking your DNS server. This would explain
>> why you haven't seen the problem in previous versions of Netscape.
>> 
>> Probably what you want is to put a
>> 
>>      forward only;

I started having the same problem today, and adding 'forward only;' to my
named.conf seems to have improved the situation.  I no longer have to wait for
a lookup or timeout for Netscape.


thanks


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Andrew