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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
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Subject: Re: nslookup problem on FreeBSD-5.3: problem with non FQN domain
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On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 01:00:33PM +0100 I heard the voice of
Julian H. Stacey, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> Oh, OK. So I removed every line with a # & all blank lines, leaving just
> ---
> nameserver      127.0.0.1
> nameserver      194.221.32.6
> nameserver      194.221.87.2
> ---
> It didnt help.

Nonono; the other thing you do with commented lines   :)

You need the "domain berklix.org" (or a similar "search" line) for it
to guess a domain for non-FQDN lookups.  That'll tell it to check
"flat.berklix.org" if it can't find "flat" (or the other order; I can
never remember); otherwise how would it know what to try?


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Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
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"The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I
      haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"