From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 14 06:42:51 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76459106564A for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:42:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx23.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03D778FC15 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:42:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 26287 invoked by uid 399); 14 Oct 2010 06:42:50 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.145?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 14 Oct 2010 06:42:50 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4CB6A67C.2070208@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:43:08 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eugene Grosbein References: <4CB2AF28.30309@rdtc.ru> <4CB3D6B6.9060001@rdtc.ru> <4CB409DA.1060705@FreeBSD.org> <4CB455D5.1080902@rdtc.ru> <4CB4AB48.2050307@FreeBSD.org> <4CB55A41.6000507@rdtc.ru> In-Reply-To: <4CB55A41.6000507@rdtc.ru> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.2a1pre OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strange resolver behavour X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:42:51 -0000 On 10/13/2010 12:05 AM, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > On 13.10.2010 01:39, Doug Barton wrote: > >>> I care about my resolver behavior. >> >> Ok, well, that's working as advertised, so no problems then. > > That's fine. And how about host(1)? > It looks for MX record for synthetic domain names > using suffixes from /etc/resolv.conf You said you wanted something that exercised the resolver, make up your mind. :) > Hopefully it does not find but what if such names would exist > and have MX records? host(1) would lie to me. No, it would act the way it's supposed to. If there is an answer that you should get, it will give it to you. If you want to debug something that isn't working the way you think it should, use dig. Doug -- Breadth of IT experience, and | Nothin' ever doesn't change, depth of knowledge in the DNS. | but nothin' changes much. Yours for the right price. :) | -- OK Go http://SupersetSolutions.com/