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From: rees@pisa.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
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Subject: Re: Using name servers (was: Internet Address of dabo.ifs.umich.edu)
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Date: 19 Feb 91 20:09:46 GMT
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In article <HANCHE.91Feb18195355@hufsa.imf.unit.no>, hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen) writes:

     You can have as many as you want, it tries
     them in the order listed.
  
  That's what the manual says.  Last time our primary name server became
  unavailable, our machines would not revert to the second one and so
  most addresses were rejected as `unknown'.

This works for me, with sr10.3, at least some of the time.  Maybe it depends
on the error you get back, whether it's timeout or refused or whatever.