adding suffix to names outside domain

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Fri Jun 25 22:27:49 UTC 2004


Max Waterman wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Please advise if there is a better place to ask this question...
>
>I have been using dnsmasq on the advice of one of the members of this 
>list. It seems to be working very nicely, thanks.
>
>One problem I am seeing, however, is with our MS Windows computers. 
>Sometimes, they seem to add the local domain name to a fully qualified 
>domain name. EG, if I used 'nslookup' from a command prompt in XP to 
>lookup, say, 'www.sgi.com', it would return an address for 
>'www.sgi.com.jingmei.org'.
>
>I clearly never want it to do this. The only time I want 'jingmei.org' 
>added is when the query doesn't have a '.' in it.
>
>I don't see this behaviour on my Powerbook (OS 10.3.4), btw.
>
>dnsmasq is configured as dns and dhcp :
>
>http://reality.sgiweb.org/maxw/tmp/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.conf
>
>I am running RH9.
>
Client configuration issue. I'm not sure what it has to do with BIND...

- Kevin




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