Depending on your configuration. DNS server caches queries most commonly asked for/resolved. So in a way, it will forward after it has checked cache and failed to find an entry. -----Original Message----- From: Bill Beckett [mailto:Bill.Beckett@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 28 June 2004 20:27 To: 'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [windows2000] DNS Can someone definitively answer this question... If using forwarders on your W2K DNS server, does the forward lookup occur first or after the DNS server fails to resolve the name?