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Date:      Thu, 14 Oct 1999 18:47:39 +0200
From:      Vadim Chekan <vadim@gc.lviv.ua>
To:        Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
Cc:        "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Resolver in FreeBSD-3.[12] is broken?
Message-ID:  <3806092B.E419F8D8@gc.lviv.ua>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9910140809430.25661-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>

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Tom wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Vadim Chekan wrote:
> > From FreeBSD-3.2 (I checked this on 4 machines)
> > =========================================================
> > bash-2.03$ host 212.109.34.132
> > 132.34.109.212.IN-ADDR.ARPA is a nickname for
> > 132.34.109.212.cscd.lviv.ua
> 
>   IN-ADDR DNS for that block is definitely screwed up, because I can't
> even get an answer from here.

What do you mean? "host 212.109.34.132" doesn't do any output for you?

>   Also, "host" in 3.2 can find CNAMEs, so it does not follow the CNAME.  I
> think it does an ANY search.
>   In this case, the "CNAME" has been followed.  Probably because "host"
> did a PTR search instead of any ANY search.
> 
>   Whether "host" follows the CNAME or not is irrelevant.  gethostbyname()
> should still do the right thing.

So this is just strange behavior of 'host'?
If I understund right this is rather bind issue, not FreeBSD so that
I'll move to more appropriate maillist :)

Vadim Chekan.


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