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Operating Systems HP-UX HP-UX DNS issue Post 302887312 by methyl on Thursday 6th of February 2014 06:56:56 PM
Old 02-06-2014
Assuming that 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2 are both DNS servers and that they are Primary and Secondary respectively.

You can test whether they are both working DNS servers with:
nslookup microsoft.com 192.168.1.1
nslookup microsoft.com 192.168.2.1

The /etc/nsswitch.conf posted will give up if the Primary DNS is down.
With "NOTFOUND=return" first I don't think that your server will ever look at the secondary (or any reserve) DNS's listed in your /etc/resolv.conf .

Unless your server does tons of DNS lookups on computers which are for some reason not in your DNS, imho this is much better:

hosts: dns [NOTFOUND=continue UNAVAIL=continue TRYAGAIN=continue] files

(I cut/paste this from one of my long-term reliable computers. Not my original work and I would like to credit the tip, but it's been too long).

Last edited by methyl; 02-06-2014 at 08:02 PM..
 

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desproxy-dns(1) 						   User Commands						   desproxy-dns(1)

NAME
desproxy-dns - DNS for dynamic connections SYNOPSIS
desproxy-dns dns_server proxy_host proxy_port OPTIONS
None DESCRIPTION
If you have direct DNS access then you don't need to do anything else. You know you have direct DNS access if you can resolve host names to IP addresses. NOTE: as desproxy-dns listens in port 53 (which is less than 1024) you may need administrator privileges to exec desproxy-dns (in fact if you are running UN*X, you actually have to run desproxy-dns as root). OK, so you have a dns server accessible now. But your computer doesn't know anything about that. You must configure your network accordingly (again, need to be root in UN*X). Edit /etc/resolv.conf and add the line "nameserver 127.0.0.1". You don't have to restart anything. Just test ping and see if it works. ENVIRONMENT
None. FILES
None. SEE ALSO
dnsproxy(1), ping(1) AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>, for the Debian GNU system (but may be used by others). Released under license GPL v2 or any later version. desproxy-dns 2012-03-26 desproxy-dns(1)
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