On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 11:21 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Does your /etc/resolv.conf contain more than one nameserver entry? If > you are having trouble with failures, I'd try more entries even if you > have to point them back at the same server to get another chance. The local machine (the one I'm on) points only to the DNS machine in /etc/resolv.conf. The DNS machine points to itself, and the DNS there is made aware of the root server changes, etc so it can find everything by itself. I wonder; I'm not really clear on this 'forwarding' concept. Would this be the place for forwarding on my local machine, to this DNS machine? -- This may sound silly but check your disk usage. A simular thing happened to me and I was out of disk space. mB.