Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 21:19:06 -0500 (CDT) From: Jason Hunt <root@hermes.niicommunications.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: DNS woes Message-ID: <200105080219.f482J6C41775@hermes.niicommunications.com>
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bonsoir, I am having a little bit of difficulty understanding exactly what is the issue here. This is the scenario: I have an internal DNS server set up here at home and at work. At home, I can (example) type ping hostname and I get a sucessful ping results. My /etc/resolv.conf file only has nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - There is no search domain name. I am not sure why this still works, because I do not have an entry in my /etc/host file as well for all my internal servers - but I can simply type their first name and get to those machines. At work, however using the same version of BIND (8.2.3), this does not work. My configuration files are exactly the same (so I believe). I looked at my 127.0.0 / xxx.xxx.xxx / domainname zone files on both machines and could not find any differences in them, nor in /etc/namedb/named.conf. The only way I can get the same results is to put search domain name in my /etc/resolv.conf on the work machines. Can anyone explain why this is happening or what I need to do in order to reproduce this kind of result on the work machines? I find this more convenient than having to put search domain name in all my /etc/resolv.conf -- really I would just like to know why one is acting this way, and the other a different way. Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time gentlemen. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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