Date:        Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:27:57 -0500
    From:        "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
    Message-ID:  <20050316042757.1C3033C04DC@berkshire.machshav.com>

  | Is there any configuration or resolv.conf 
  | setting I could have used?

Unless that was multicast DNS (local area DNS, zeroconf DNS,
Rendezvous, or whatever you want to call it), then no, and nor
should there be.

For regular unicast DNS, the behaviour you described is simply totally
broken.

kre