Description of problem:
The 'host' and 'nslookup' utilities perform recursive queries by default.  If multiple nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf, and these nameservers are configured as authoritative-only -- so no recursion is available -- then both the 'host' and 'nslookup' utilities will ignore the valid response returned by named, so long as more than one nameserver is configured in /etc/resolv.conf

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
# lsb_release -a
LSB Version:	:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch:printing-4.0-amd64:printing-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID:	RedHatEnterpriseServer
Description:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.2 (Santiago)
Release:	6.2
Codename:	Santiago
# rpm -q bind-utils
bind-utils-9.7.3-8.P3.el6_2.2.x86_64
# 

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set 'recursion no;' in your named.conf.
2. Ensure that instance of bind is present in /etc/resolv.conf.
3. Add an additional, non-existat -- i.e. 127.0.0.2 -- nameserver to /etc/resolv.conf.
4. Attempt to look up a host for which the nameserver is authoritative.
  
Actual results:
With /etc/resolv.conf:
-----
domain example.com
search example.com
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 127.0.0.2
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# host foo.example.com.
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
#  

On the network:
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# tcpdump -i lo -lnp port 53
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on lo, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes
20:42:38.796690 IP 127.0.0.1.56421 > 127.0.0.1.domain: 63281+ A? foo.example.com. (46)
20:42:38.796938 IP 127.0.0.1.domain > 127.0.0.1.56421: 63281*- 1/3/3 A 192.168.0.100 (179)
20:42:38.797128 IP 127.0.0.2.37682 > 127.0.0.2.domain: 63281+ A? foo.example.com. (46)
20:42:43.797499 IP 127.0.0.2.37682 > 127.0.0.2.domain: 63281+ A? foo.example.com. (46)
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Expected results:
With /etc/resolv.conf:
-----
domain example.com
search example.com
nameserver 127.0.0.1
-----

# host foo.example.com.
foo.example.com has address 192.168.0.100
# 

On the network:
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20:43:53.702429 IP 127.0.0.1.37943 > 127.0.0.1.domain: 55233+ A? foo.example.com. (46)
20:43:53.702545 IP 127.0.0.1.domain > 127.0.0.1.37943: 55233*- 1/3/3 A 192.168.0.100 (179)
20:43:53.702841 IP 127.0.0.1.50849 > 127.0.0.1.domain: 16205+ AAAA? foo.example.com. (46)
20:43:53.702940 IP 127.0.0.1.domain > 127.0.0.1.50849: 16205*- 0/1/0 (93)
20:43:53.703047 IP 127.0.0.1.60328 > 127.0.0.1.domain: 23258+ MX? foo.example.com. (46)
20:43:53.703119 IP 127.0.0.1.domain > 127.0.0.1.60328: 23258*- 0/1/0 (93)
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Additional info:
Both 'host' and 'nslookup' provide workarounds for this: '-r' and '-norec', respectively.