need default domain badly

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Tue Sep 27 03:21:06 UTC 2005


In article <dh98vv$1kd3$1 at sf1.isc.org>, BRElliott at gmail.com wrote:

> I work for a company that was forced to move our datacenter in lieue of
> hurricane  Rita.  I know it's not proper but let me get to the point of
> what I need.  I need to temporarly have host queries resolve to a
> domain if it's not specified because (somehow) this used to work
> before.

Appending a default domain is something that's done on the client, not 
the server.  On Windows it's the DNS Search List in the IP properties, 
on Unix it's the "domain" or "search" option in /etc/resolv.conf.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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