Subject: Re: changing resolv.conf ?
To: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Assar Westerlund <assar@netbsd.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 07/26/2001 17:18:03
itojun@iijlab.net writes:
> 	instead, run a nameserver on your machine (even a tiny ones like
> 	totd/mdnsd should be fine) and set /etc/resolv.conf to
> 	"nameserver 0.0.0.0".  this is the way that it should be.

I usually run a local named and just noticed this problem when I was
testing mdnsd, which seems to not reply fast enough sometimes, and
then the resolver goes on to the other listed nameservers.  I think
having some kind of working fallback is good.

/assar