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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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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