dig and the searchlist

[Brad Knowles]

At 2:26 PM +0200 2005-09-06, Uwe Gansert wrote:

>  I think the mailinglist software has destroyed my mails. There was an Umlaut
>  in my signature (an u with dots on it). I removed that and I hope the mail
>  is fine now.

	I don't think it was the mailing list software.  I think it was 
your MUA that was sending your messages as an unmarked 8-bit 
encoding, but didn't specify the character set, etc....  At least, 
looking at the MIME headers of the previous messages I received from 
you, that's the way it looks to me.

>  I see the broken mail too. I hope it's fixed now, since I don't have the
>  Umlaut in my signature anymore.

	This response does look better.

>  I tried that what you suggested with no spaces and no 3D in it but it does
>  not work. the +ndots parameter gets ignored. Just in the resolv.conf it
>  works.

	Hmm.  I tried using the version of dig from BIND-8.4.6, and that 
seems to understand ndots correctly on the command-line, as does dig 
from BIND-9.3.1.  Maybe you've got an older version of dig that 
doesn't?

	Without any more information, that's the best guess I can come up 
with.  Maybe further reflection and testing will provide some answers.

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