Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:34:29 +0000 From: Alexander Derevyanko <der@pc759.cs.msu.su> To: Edwin Groothuis <chello.nl!mavetju@pc759.cs.msu.su> Cc: bellsouth.net!lanehol@pc759.cs.msu.su, FreeBSD.ORG!freebsd-questions@pc759.cs.msu.su Subject: Re: DNS lookup Message-ID: <3A6601D5.5614DF97@pc759.cs.msu.su> References: <000901c07d74$2c3dcd60$09cf3fd0@windows.home> <20010113180402.J94930@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl>
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Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 09:19:07AM -0600, lanehol@bellsouth.net wrote: > > Before I setup the local DNS server the Mac could retrieve a web address > > such as www.freebsd.org or www.yahoo.com just by typing in freebsd or yahoo, And what it returns if you type 'www' ? It must be shurtcuts somethere. May be, it is you browser functionality - fast find in previously visited URL's. Netscape have such thing (but it rarely works good). > > respectively. Now the Mac must type the full address. The windows box > > seems to be unaffected (since he was always typing the full address anyway) > > > > How do I regain that functionality for the MAC? > > It's a client-application functionality, it has nothing to do with > whatever you're using as the DNS server. If, on the Mac, you remove > the address of the freebsd machine and put the original back, does > this behaviour return? And it can't be DNS-specific functionality. Just think about traffic needed to recursiwely search in domain tree from the root. May be, Mac client library make search in previous-cached requests for uncomplete addresses, but it seems not wise. Or you have some analog of /etc/hosts file somethere, where shortcuts was written. > > Edwin > > -- > Edwin Groothuis | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: > mavetju@chello.nl | http://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org/ > ------------------+ telnet://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org:4000 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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