> 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. > > I have both "domain" and "search" specifications in /etc/resolv.conf, > and I have even set the domain name with "domainname". None of those > make it automatic to find short names through DNS. Ken, 1) I can't remember where I read it, but IIRC, you can only have domain or search, not both. They perform the same function, except that search allows for multiple domain searches in later versions of bind. Don't bother with the domain directive, just use search. 2) When I'm testing my specific domain server, I use: dig @my.dns.server name.of.domain.to.find any the @my.dns.server ensures that the lookup is against the dns server I'm testing. the 'any' at the end is the type of records I'm looking for. HTH, Ben -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
