From: "Geo." 

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:40026a53.13785172{at}216.144.1.254...

> With NT4 if a DNS server replies and says "the name you are looking up
> does not exist", your computer believes it and will NOT ask the other DNS
> servers.

Actually I don't think that's always true. If it has a record for the
domain but not for the specific machine in the domain then yes but if it
responds nxdomain and is not authorative (if the domain isn't hosted by
your dns) then the next dns server is checked.

Geo.

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