[lug] resolver

[Hugh Brown]

Thanks, I opted for #2.

Hugh

On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 11:33, John Hernandez wrote:
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> I think you have three options.
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> 1) everything without a TRAILING dot (non-FQDN) is a candidate for
> search in your list of domains.  Use a trailing dot to indicate a
> literal rather than relative match.
> 
> 2) remove your domain from the search list
> 
> 3) remove the DNS match-all used for parking (if you can), and just
> replace it with a single entry for www.mydomain.dom.  I'm sure that
> nobody expect somerandomstuff.mydomain.com to resolve.
> 
> Hugh Brown wrote:
> | I have a domain that I have parked with dotster (any queries to
> | *.mydomain.dom return the ip address for fwd.dotster.com).
> |
> | I recently tried to find a website at subdomain.someotherdomain.dom.
> |
> | When I do it in a browser, I get "Future site of a dotster registered
> | domain."  I know the admin for someotherdomain.dom and know that he
> | isn't doing anything via dotster.
> |
> | I fired up ethereal and discovered that my machine queries the dns
> | server for subdomain.someotherdomain.dom and gets a "Host not found"  My
> | machine then queries dns for subdomain.someotherdomain.dom.mydomain.dom
> | and gets a reply (because everything that ends in mydomain.dom will).
> |
> | my /etc/resolv.conf has the following
> |
> | nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> | nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> | search mydomain.dom someotherdomain.dom
> |
> |
> | I thought that the resolver wouldn't try the search path if the query
> | had a dot in the name (e.g. somehost.somwhere) because it would appear
> | to be a fully qualified host name.  How can I turn this auto appending
> | of mydomain.dom to everything off?
> |
> | Hugh
> |
> |
> |
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> |
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