On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 13:58, Ken Rossman wrote: > On Friday, November 21, 2003, at 08:49 AM, John Horne wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 23:02, Ken Rossman wrote: > >> I have a glitch, however. Both "nslookup" and "host" seem to be able > >> to > >> resolve short version names (e.g. 'name' for 'name.domain.net'), but > >> "dig" does not return anything. > > > > Try 'dig +search name'. > > Here's the part I don't understand. "dig" works fine on other systems > I have messed with, but not on mine. > Given the same 'name' to lookup? Both host and nslookup will use the search list in /etc/resolv.conf to find domain names. dig does not do this unless you use '+search'. On the systems where it works is the 'dig' you are using the standard one from the ISC BIND software? dig will go to the root name servers initially because that is where it has to start the search for a name it knows nothing about. John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: John.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +44 (0)1752 233839 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
