On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Julio Merino wrote:

> I've an 1.6_STABLE machine working as a DNS server, using the bind included
> in the system. It is setup to use two forwarders (the ones my ISP provides)
> and provides my local network names to local computers.
>
> Although, I'm experiencing a small problem with the resolving in clients.
> Sometimes clients are unable to resolve a name; for example, the www browser
> stays saying "Resolving name ..." and then shows an error saying that the
> server is unknown. But, pressing reload makes it work perfectly. This also
> happens while connecting to any other kind of server (FTP) and randomly.
> That is, it can be reproduced with nslookup, but it may or may not happen
> with a given name or at an specific time.

Try getting rid of your forwarders for a day and see if the problem goes
away.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/