Can you avoid the bar.baz.domain.com.domain.com by searching for bar.baz.domain.com. (note trailing dot) ?? On Thu, June 23, 2011 11:06, John Hodrien wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > >> As Les wrote in another branch of the thread, search clause is if you >> try name without a domain. > > I think it's slightly more subtle and possibly more annoying than that. > > Say you have a machine called foo.mydomain.com > > By default (if you don't specify it), search is set to be mydomain.com. > > So a lookup for bar would initially be done as bar.domain.com. > > A lookup for bar.baz would initially be searched for as bar.baz (because > it > has at least ndots in it), but if that failed, would then be looked up as > bar.baz.domain.com. > > Equally a search for baz.domain.com (where baz didn't exist) would be > looked > up first as baz.domain.com and then as baz.domain.com.domain.com. > > This appears to be doubly annoying with programs compile with IPv6 support > where there aren't AAAA records. > > So a typical valid lookup for machine.domain.com becomes: > > AAAA lookup for machine.domain.com (not found) > AAAA lookup for machine.domain.com.domain.com (not found) > A lookup for machine.domain.com (found) > > jh > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos