Local.lan

[Holger Honert]

Hi Paul,

what kinda OS do you use?

Usually MS-Clients append their internal DNS-Suffixes to queueries.

Try using nslookup in debug mode like this (or choose dig or host instead [recommended]):

nslookup
>set d2
>www.whatever.com

Regards

Holger




navatalus at yahoo.com schrieb:
> Hi all,
>
> I have an overall idea of how DNS works but I have lots of gaps in the
> details.
>
> For example I was tracing a nslookup for a www.whatever.com and in the
> trace I see that the first dns packet is Standard query A
> www.whatever.com.local.lan to which I get a response of no such name.
> The next dns packet is Standard query A www.whatever.com which gets
> correctly resolved. So my question is why am i taggin local.lan on the
> end of my original query? is this normal can I eliminate this original
> query?
>
> cheers
> Paul
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