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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
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Subject: Re: BIND/named experts?
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On Fri, 28 Jun 1996, Nate Williams wrote:

> My new class --C is now in place, and things appear to be working pretty
> good.  Things are being propogated correctly, and my MX sites have now
> got all of the necessary information so mail will end up getting to me
> sooner or later.
> 
> However, 'named' doesn't work very well on my router box.  It seems to
> want to append '.sri.com' to *EVERY* query I make unless I end them with
> a dot, which makes named on my router useless (except everyone getting
> the information from my box seems to be doing OK with it.)

  This is the standard resolver behaviour.  It tries with the domain name
appended first, and if that fails, it will try without.

  I suspect that the second query it not working because your name server
is not authoritative for the .sri.com.

> Does anyone have any idea how I can track this down?  Here is one
> example of what appears to be happening from the logfile.

  What happens with nslookup in debug mode?

Tom