need to look up short names

[Darcy Kevin (FCA)]

Appending suffixes to short names to make them legal DNS names, is considered the responsibility of the *client*, not the *server*.

Look up “resolver search list” (more Unix-ish/Linux-ish) or “suffix search list” (more Windows-ish), and you should find some useful information.


-          Kevin


From: bind-users [mailto:bind-users-bounces at lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of toddandmargo
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 8:21 PM
To: bind-users at lists.isc.org
Subject: need to look up short names


Hi All,

Fedora 26
bind-chroot-9.11.1-2.P2.fc26.x86_64

I am stumped.   I need to be able to look up short names on my local network.

Long names work:

# host pop3.xxx.local
pop3.xxx.local is an alias for FedoraServer.xxx.local.
FedoraServer.xxx.local has address 192.168.255.12

But not short names:

# host pop3
Host pop3 not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

My hosts.xxx look like this for pop3:
FedoraServer            A       192.168.255.12
pop3                    CNAME   FedoraServer

What am I missing?

Many thanks,
-T
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