I am running Suse 9.0. It appears that the system does not honor multiple nameserver entries in /etc/resolv.conf. My /etc/resolv.conf looks as below: nameserver a.b.c.d nameserver z.y.x.u The two name servers host different zones and do not talk to one another. It appears that on my Suse system, only the first nameserver entry is honored. I can successfully resolve names on in the zone hosted by the first DNS server only. I verified this by switching the order of nameserver entries in /etc/resolv.conf . Has anyone else seen this? The only work around I think of at the moment is to setup a "caching only" name server on my Suse machine and then list the two name servers I need as forwarding addresses. I hate running a full fledged name server just for DNS resolution, but I cannot think of any other decent workaround to what appears to be a broken implementation of /etc/resolv.conf. Thanks in advance for any help, --Moby They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me. -- Pastor Martin Niemöller