IDS and DNS

All, Can someone explain how Informix reacts when the primary DNS server that the engine utilized upon startup goes down? The outage of the primary DNS server is rare, but when it happens, connectivity to the database server becomes so painfully slow that it is unusable, despite the fact that there is a secondary DNS server. It appears that the original nameserver in the resolv.conf file is still being utilized despite the fact that it is unreachable and all new connections must timeout prior to utilizing the second nameserver in the list. I suppose since the engine is already running that there is no way to tell it to use a different nameserver as its first source (other than a restart), or is there? We are running 7.31.UD3 on AIX 4.3. The result of this last incident has been a change to the /etc/netsvc.conf file (hosts =3D local,bind). Any help/explanation/confirmation would be greatly appreciated.=20 =20 Thanks, =20 John =20 Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message or = attachments hereto. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do = not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, = conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to = the official business of this company shall be understood as neither = given nor endorsed by it.