domain.com.domain.com being looked up for local names?

[Ernie Oporto]

This was done via nslookup on the machine that is the DNS server on the
commandline.
 ># nslookup obiwan.shokk.com

where obiwan.shokk.com is a 192.168.0.0 net machine behind the NAT server,
which is also the DNS server.

This machine is running Bind 8.2.1, so that's the nslookup I'm using.  When
I do a ping from one of the NAT machines using this as the nameserver, the
request is only done once, making me think the nslookup is doing it.  If it
is true that it doesn't always do it, what is it that tickles nslookup into
this behavior?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Voight [mailto:mvoight at cisco.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 11:46 PM
> To: Ernie Oporto
> Cc: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
> Subject: Re: domain.com.domain.com being looked up for local names?
>
>
> How exactly did you do the lookup?
> Did you use nslookup? Nslookup will always append the domain name to
> what ever you enter if there is no ending dot. Try the same lookup and
> put a trailing dot. NOTE: This is an nslookup oddity, not how standard
> lookups are performed for telnet, etc
>
> Michael
>
> Ernie Oporto wrote:
> >
> > Putting BIND 8.2.1 into debug mode for me gives me the following when
> > resolving local addresses.  The names resolve on the second
> > permutation, but why is the first one taking place.  I guess I could
> > live with it if I had to, but this just doesn't look right.  What would
> > cause this?  Let me know if anyone wants to see
> > my /usr/local/etc/named.conf or my /var/named/* files.
> >
> > Debug level 1
> > Version = named 8.2.1 Fri Jul  2 01:28:19 EDT 1999
> >         root at vader:/nb/local/src/bind/src/bin/named
> > conffile = /usr/local/etc/named.conf
> > datagram from [216.164.43.139].32787, fd 24, len 44
> > req: nlookup(obiwan.shokk.com.shokk.com) id 24 type=1 class=1
> > req: found 'obiwan.shokk.com.shokk.com' as 'shokk.com' (cname=0)
> > ns_req: answer -> [216.164.43.139].32787 fd=24 id=24 size=100 rc=3
> > datagram from [216.164.43.139].32787, fd 24, len 34
> > req: nlookup(obiwan.shokk.com) id 25 type=1 class=1
> > req: found 'obiwan.shokk.com' as 'obiwan.shokk.com' (cname=0)
> > ns_req: answer -> [216.164.43.139].32787 fd=24 id=25 size=95 rc=0
> > Debug off
> >
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