queries

[Eric Benoit]

sorry about that, I am new :)

I am using a debian 3.1 sarge ppc build running BIND 9.3.1. as my DNS 
server.

All the clients on my class C network have it's IP 
address(192.168.1.16(sting)) listed as the first DNS server. The client 
computers are a mixture of win98, winXP and linux.  Some of the client 
computers are able to get to Internal servers some are not. The client 
computers that cannot get to our Internal servers via its hostname act 
strangly, when I use nslookup (a microsoft tool) to lookup "secure" the 
DNS appears to be working just fine.

example:

client computer A can get to http://secure through a browser
but
client computer B goes to http://f-secure.com instead of http://secure 
like it is supposed to using a browser

"secure" is the name of a server listed on my DNS server as a master zone


Here is the entry for "secure":

$ttl 38400
secure.	IN	SOA	secure. eric.hopevale.com. (
			1115035962
			10800
			3600
			604800
			38400 )
secure.	IN	NS	sting.
secure.	5D	IN	A	192.168.1.18









John Hascall wrote:
>>Greetings, I set up an internal DNS with BIND 9.3.1
>>Everything seemed to be working great until I went to a couple of 
>>different clients and the lookups ...well they didn't really fail, but 
>>the client couldn't resolve to my internal hosts ...could it be the 
>>clients?  I am using a class c network and allowed queries from 
>>192.168.1.0/24.
> 
> 
>>I do nslookup from the client and everything works things resolve, but 
>>the browser adds .com??
> 
> 
>>I know this is prolly simple, just stuck.
> 
> 
> You didn't really provide enough details to be sure, but if the client
> is a Unix/Linux-type look at /etc/resolv.conf, in particular lines
> like:
> 
>    domain com
> or
>    search ... com ...
> 
> and
>    options ndots:N
> 
> where N is some number.  Doing "man resolv.conf" should be of some
> assistance in determining what you really want there.
> 
> If it is a Windows machine, there is probably some similar control panel.
> 
> 
> John
>