Local domain appended to 2 domains only

[Cricket Liu]

>    Two FQDNs won't resolve. www.schwab.com and www.aesdirect.com from
> Windows 9X nor from HP-UX 11.0. Turned on tracing and found that named
> (4.9.7) appends the local domain to the end of the lookup. Here is an
> example of what I find the end of the trace:
>
> datagram from [192.168.10.11].59609, fd 21, len 50; now Wed Sep  5
> 15:30:35 2001
> req_query: policy_name = www
> req: nlookup(www.schwab.com.localdomain.com) id 59797 type=1 class=1
> req: found 'www.schwab.com.localdomain.com' as localdomain.com'
> (cname=0)
> findns: SOA found
> ns_req: answer -> [192.168.10.11].59609 fd=21 id=59797 size=50 Local

I doubt that's BIND appending "localdomain.com."  It's
much more likely the application looking up www.schwab.com.
Doesn't the host at 192.168.10.11 have "localdomain.com" in
its search list?

Very old versions of BIND 4 had the ability to do what you're
talking about, using the domain directive in named.boot.

cricket