From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 13 9:29:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from paperbox.gvpl.victoria.bc.ca (paperbox.gvpl.victoria.bc.ca [199.60.107.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D2E515021 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 09:28:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rwilson@gvpl.victoria.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by paperbox.gvpl.victoria.bc.ca (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA13108 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 08:36:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pochta.gvpl.victoria.bc.ca(199.60.106.7) by paperbox.gvpl.victoria.bc.ca via smap (V2.0/2.1+anti-relay+anti-spam) id xma013064; Fri, 13 Aug 99 08:35:40 -0700 Received: from localhost (rwilson@localhost) by pochta.gvpl.victoria.bc.ca (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA10636 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 08:35:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 08:35:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Rich Wilson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: DNS question Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This isn't strictly a FreeBSD question, but I'm hoping someone here can help me out. I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE #0: Sun Jan 10 19:12:57 PST 1999 and I also get the problem on FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE (SPIDER) #0: Thu Oct 8 14:30:19 PDT 1998 I am unable to ping cbca.micromedia.on.ca (I get 'ping: cannot resolve cbca.micromedia.on.ca: Unknown host') although I can use nslookup with ns 199.60.118.2 to get: Name: cbca-prod.micromedia.on.ca Address: 204.187.104.128 Aliases: cbca.micromedia.on.ca, cbca_prod.micromedia.on.ca I CAN ping cbca-prod.micromedia.on.ca I realize the _ in cbca_prod not recommended, but should the existence of an alternate incorrect alias cause the resolver to fail? The site in question already changed the name from cbca_prod to cbca-prod at my request, and also added the extra alias, cbca_prod. __o -\<, Rich O/ O To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message