Re: Question about bind and dig normal behavior

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net>]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:11:54AM -0500, William Ballard wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 10:03:01PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > Your question seems to carry the implication that you believe I am not 
> > mistaken in my expectation, i.e. in your view, I am justified in expecting
> > the second query to yield a useful answer?
> 
> Of course.  Perhaps you need a "domain" line in resolv.conf.
> What do "hostname" and "dnsdomainname" return?
> 

big:~# hostname
big
big:~# dnsdomainname
lan.gnu
big:~# hostname --fqdn
big.lan.gnu

All answers are as they should be, according to my understanding.

Thanks.

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Paul E Condon           
pecondon@mesanetworks.net