Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:24:47 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nslookup problem on FreeBSD-5.3: problem with non FQN domain Message-ID: <200502181324.j1IDOlE0008187@fire.jhs.private> In-Reply-To: Message from "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> <20050218120316.GK79745@over-yonder.net>
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"Matthew D. Fuller" wrote: > 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 :) Yes, well, while in doubt testing, threw out all un-necessary complication. > You need the "domain berklix.org" (or a similar "search" line) for it > to guess a domain for non-FQDN lookups. I've not needed that till now on any of the 3 servers (since I changed my hostnames from *.bsn.com to *.berklix.org a long time back, before then I needed that admittedly). It's optional now. > 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? By default from the domain name part returned by `hostname` per man resolv.conf under domain & search I was wondering if it might be a reverse lookup problem, as my IP is 194.221.32.28, & that (via nslookup) returns bim.bsn.com but that can't be the problem, else I'd be seeing same problem on another of my machines: tower.berklix.org = 194.221.32.7 = bsd.bsn.com However, I was going to experiment by adding back domain & search in resolv.conf, but unfortunately I now can't reproduce the problem, so can't tell if adding them back would clear the problem that's now gone ! Aargh ! - Julian Stacey Net & Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Mail in Ascii (Html=Spam). Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz.
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