How FreeBSD Handles a DNS that is Down

2010-10-21 Thread Martin McCormick
This is an extremely novice question on my part, but after what I recently witnessed, I am not so sure I understand all I know. The normal procedure on internet-connected systems is to set the resolv.conf file to include at least 2 domain name servers. Example: nameserver

Re: How FreeBSD Handles a DNS that is Down

2010-10-21 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, October 21, 2010 a las 06:22:15AM -0500, Martin McCormick escribió: This is an extremely novice question on my part, but after what I recently witnessed, I am not so sure I understand all I know. The normal procedure on internet-connected systems is to set the

Re: How FreeBSD Handles a DNS that is Down

2010-10-21 Thread RW
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 06:22:15 -0500 Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote: Last night, I had to take down our primary DNS for maintenance and lots of systems began having trouble of various kinds. While I expected the FreeBSD system I was on to hang for a couple of