Here is a normal day in the world of Hobbit DNS resolution...

DNS statistics:

hostnames resolved : 17

succesful : 17

failed : 0

calls to dnsresolve : 31

DNS lookups completed 1202826251.058136 0.072268

But now when there is a problem reaching the DNS server (I have two in /etc/resolv.conf) it spikes up to...

DNS lookups completed 1202825989.913910 40.001908

Is there any way to set the DNS resolution timeout to something smaller? Has anyone tried running bind9 on the Hobbit box itself and having it hold cache locally? I have had two instances where Hobbit failed to resolve DNS for a completely unknown reason, even while the DNS test on the two hosts stay green!

What I hope to accomplish is finding the reasoning behind these DNS failures. It will fail to resolve several unrelated domains (different NS servers all together). My real confusion, though, it that Hobbit is asking the same two boxes in /etc/resolv.conf for several domains - some of which resolve, when some don't!

Thanks in advance! Josh

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