From: dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 17:59:51 -0500, Bit Twister    
   wrote:   
      
   > On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:53 +1100, faeychild wrote:   
   >> Surely it is supposed to fall through to the name servers in resolv.conf.   
      
   > As I misunderstand it, the next nameserver is used when the first   
   > nameserver fails to respond with an ip addy or with xxxx not found.   
      
   It only falls through if the nameserver either does not respond, or   
   returns a servfail error. If it returns "not found", that's the   
   answer returned to the application, and the remaining servers listed   
   in resolv.conf are ignored.   
      
   Regards, Dave Hodgins   
      
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