DNS not resoliving requests from Windows Me clients

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Tue Jul 31 21:59:10 UTC 2001


It's impossible to answer this question without knowing how your nameserver
is configured.


- Kevin

Venkataramana Sanapala wrote:

> Hi,
> I have configured my Linux machine as DNS server.
> I want my DNS to resolve any request from any client to a
> single IP address which I specify.
> On Windows 2000 clients nslookup returns the same IP
> address for all the requests as expected.
> But when I run nslookup from Windows Me, any request that
> ends with .com(example : something.com. hello.com)is being
> resolved to the correct IP address and all other requests
> are not being resolved.
> I am under the impression that, DNS should be transperent
> from the client machines.
> named procees is looking for the default DNS suffix and if
> the request from the client machine doesn't have the DNS
> suffix, it is failing to resolve the request.
> Is there any way I can specify in the config files using
> wild card characters to accept all the  requests from all
> the clients ?.
> I tried padding all the in coming requests in the named
> process with ".com", but it is not working.





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