Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
>
>> If I really want to know what is different between two boxes, I'll do
>> something like NFS mount one into the other or rsync their /etc trees
>> somewhere on a common host and let diff -r walk through them.
>
>
> As indicated above, I already know the difference between the two boxes.
I find that a little hard to believe, since they behave differently and
you seem not to understand why.
>> Are you sure this isn't as simple as having (and using, check your
>> resolv.conf) a caching name server running on one box so most lookups
>> are resolved locally while the other is making the query to something
>> slow?
>
> resolve.config is the same on the two boxes.
Assuming you mean resolv.conf, is the the first choice one of the boxes
in question?
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Les Mikesell
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