intranet hostname lookup only

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Fri May 5 03:40:52 UTC 2006


In article <e3dvi9$2iri$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:

> Um, OK, and neither of those constitute "setup [of] bind9" as the 
> original poster requested.

So?  We're not allowed to infer the higher-level goal, and must answer 
based on his misunderstanding of client-side and server-side behavior?

> 
>                                                                          
>                                     - Kevin
> 
> Ken A wrote:
> 
> >Put "domain yourdomain.tld" in /etc/resolv.conf or "append dns suffix" 
> >in tcp/ip properties in windows for the client side solution to this, 
> >which is the safer thing to do.
> >Ken
> >Pacific.Net
> >
> >
> >Kevin Darcy wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>baltoinfo wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Is there a way to setup bind9 so that I can do a nslookup on the
> >>>hostname only and not the hostname.domain? My bind is only for one
> >>>intranet domain.
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Yes, but I'm not going to tell you, because it's non-scalable, 
> >>inflexible and extremely bad practice.
> >>
> >>Get yourself and your users in the habit of using FQDNs (fully-qualified 
> >>domain names). It'll save you a lot of headache in the long run.
> >>
> >>                                                                         
> >>                                             - Kevin
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  
> >

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