<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style='font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;'><br>Hi All,<br><br>Fedora 26<br>bind-chroot-9.11.1-2.P2.fc26.x86_64<br><br>I am stumped. I need to be able to look up short names on my local network.<br><br>Long names work:<br><br># host pop3.xxx.local<br>pop3.xxx.local is an alias for FedoraServer.xxx.local.<br>FedoraServer.xxx.local has address 192.168.255.12<br><br>But not short names:<br><br># host pop3<br>Host pop3 not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)<br><br>My hosts.xxx look like this for pop3:<br>FedoraServer A 192.168.255.12<br>pop3 CNAME FedoraServer<br><br>What am I missing?<br><br>Many thanks,<br>-T<br></div></body></html>