Re: Dns prob / resolving..

[Haim Ashkenazi <haim@consonet.com>]

On Tue, 27 May 2003 10:42:46 +0300
Haim Ashkenazi <haim@consonet.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 27 May 2003 10:10:30 +0800
> "Miranda, Joel Louie M" <jmiranda@pd.state.gov> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I forgot about how to resolve host by names on bind9 dns.
> > 
> > Ex: I want to resolv only the name w/o the domain when I type..
> > 
> > Linux> nslookup
> > Nslookup> louie
> > 
> > Server:         172.25.1.1
> > Address:        172.25.1.1#53
> > 
> > Name:   louie.mydns.com
> > Address: 172.25.1.2
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > Here's my config, but when I type in louie it does not resolve
> > 
> > ns           3600    IN      A       172.25.2.1
> > louie        3600    IN      A       172.25.2.2
> > 
> > Pls help!
> This have nothing to do with bind. if you want to resolve only by name
> put the following line in '/etc/resolv.con':
oops, that's '/etc/resolv.conf' and not '/etc/resolv.con'.

> 
> search	<DOMAIN>
> 
> when you make a dns query, you have to query for a
> fully-qualified-domain-name (that is: host.domain). when you query only
> for hostname, the client adds the domain from the 'search' entry in
> resolv.conf.
> 
> Bye
> -- 
> Haim
> 
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Haim