intermittent resolving errors

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Fri Nov 16 21:07:35 UTC 2001


In article <9t3qdn$pnd at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Kelly Scroggins  <kelly at cliffhanger.com> wrote:
>The most interesting thing about this is that the
>name being queried is intermittently appended with
>"my-domain.com".  As if it's in one of my local
>zone files and does not have the 'trailing dot' at
>the end of the RR.

If there's a failure when trying to look the name up as you typed it, the
resolver tries again with the default domain appended, unless you
explicitly type the name with a "." at the end.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
Genuity, Woburn, MA
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