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First NSLookup always times out

I have a training environment which consists of 1 physical 2008 R2 Server running AD, DNS, DHCP and Hyper V. On Hyper V I have 2 other DCs (2008 R2) which are also running DNS.

When I use nslookup to look up an internet address the first attempt always times out. When I run nslookup again, it resolves correctly. The behaviour is the same from all servers and clients:

C:\Users\ben>nslookup google.com
Server:  btraining.home.com
Address:  192.168.1.105

DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Request to btraining.home.com timed-out

C:\Users\ben>nslookup google.com
Server:  btraining.home.com
Address:  192.168.1.105

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    google.com
Addresses:  209.85.227.147
          209.85.227.106
          209.85.227.105
          209.85.227.99
          209.85.227.104
          209.85.227.103

btraining, 192.168.1.105, is set by DCHP as the primary DNS and it's own IP address is set for DNS in tcp/ip properties. The problem is the same when using one of the other servers. At the moment I have to refresh web pages to get them to display, as the first lookup always times out.

Can anyone suggest the cause of this problem?

Thanks for your help
   
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Thank you for that. It doesn't help that I missed that step when I set it up because it just worked... The not resolving then resolving threw me off the scent. Thanks for explaining. I've put the Open DNS servers in there and everything is fixed.
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Happy your fixed, glad to help.
We addressed the same issue in our environment by removing internal cross-domain name servers from Forwarders and left them as conditional-forwarders only.