dig and the searchlist

[Uwe Gansert]

On Monday 05 September 2005 22:00, Barry Margolin wrote:

> > > dig +search www.taylor
> >
> > then with tcpdump I can see:
> > > 36052+ A? www.taylor. (28)
> > > 36052 NXDomain 0/1/0 (103)
> >
> > the answer is NXDOMAIN and the search list is not used anymore. Dig
> > does no=3D t=3D20
> > try "www.taylor.suse.de" what I would expect because of the "+search".
> > Can someone explain me why this is the case?
>
> The searchlist is only used if the name has fewer than ndots dots.  Try:
>
> dig +search +ndots=3D2 www.taylor

thanks for the reply.
If I add the ndots option to the resolv.conf, then it works
but if I provide it as command line parameter like you suggested,
it does not work here. It just queries "www.taylor." and ignores
the +ndots=3D2
It's dig version 9.3.1
Do you have an idea what could be wrong?


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ciao, Uwe Gansert

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