Nslookup and fully qualified name

Gregory Hicks ghicks at cadence.com
Tue Jan 20 20:23:50 UTC 2004


> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:17:14 -0800 (PST)
> From: M Alan C <my00sc00by at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Nslookup and fully qualified name
> To: BindUsersGroup <bind-users at isc.org>
> 
> Having a problem with nslookup and dig for a host that is completely
> all numbers.
>  
> for example, if you do nslookup or dig on 437542 it returns no answer
> or nxdomain.
>  
> However if you do 437542.domain.com with nslookup or dig, it returns
> an answer.  You might say that my resolv list is not right, but if
> you do a www for domain.com and my resolv list appends domain.com www
> works.

Strictly numbers are 'assumed' to be an IP address so no answer because
neither nslookup nor dig do lookups on IP addresses (unless you specify
a lookup 'type' of PTR...)

Regards,
Gregory Hicks

>  
> What is going on with this?
>  
> thanks,
> 
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