Re: resolves all non-existent address to my local host

[Frank Gevaerts <frank@gevaerts.be>]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 03:05:02PM -0400, marcelo@redcetus.com wrote:
> Hi
> 
> > Em Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:55:47 -0400, marcelo escreveu:
> >
> >> My debian box (woody) resolves all non-existent hostnames to the local
> >> host.
> $ cat /etc/bind/domains/redcetus.com
> 
> *                       CNAME   minerva0

This wildcard entry is the indirect cause of the problem. However, in an
earlier post your resolv.conf did not have a "search" line, so this
should not cause problems. Do you have LOCALDOMAIN in your environment ?

Frank

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