From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 20 09:05:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA23207 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 09:05:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA23200 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 09:05:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA06743; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 09:05:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 09:05:01 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: What am I doing wrong with my DNS? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm getting some odd answers out of DNS. For example: narcissus:{/home/ben}% nslookup narcissus.ml.org Server: brosenga.Pitzer.edu Address: 134.173.120.201 Non-authoritative answer: Name: org.ml.org Address: 129.186.203.225 Aliases: narcissus.ml.org.ml.org brosenga.pitzer.edu is the other name of my machine, that's just fine, but the rest bothers me. If I append a . it works fine: narcissus:{/home/ben}% nslookup narcissus.ml.org. Server: brosenga.Pitzer.edu Address: 134.173.120.201 Non-authoritative answer: Name: narcissus.ml.org Address: 134.173.120.201 I'm running named in its out of the box configuration. Narcissus.ml.org is an alias provided for brosenga.pitzer.edu by ml.org. Umm . . . narcissus:{/etc}% grep "ml.org" * hosts:127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.ml.org hosts:134.173.120.201 narcissus.ml.org narcissus sysconfig:hostname=narcissus.ml.org Is there any other useful info I can provide? Thanks a bunch, I'm sure it's something stupid I'm doing but I can't figure out what. Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."