Jeff Abrahamson on 7 Jun 2004 15:35:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] DNS question (config reality check)


On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:00:50AM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > Here's the signature of the problem (one failed dig, one successful).
> > Seems that it's querying the wrong name server when I don't qualify.
> >     jeff@asterix:jeff $ dig diderot
> [nothing]
> >     jeff@asterix:jeff $ dig diderot.purple.com
> [normal]
> 
> Does 'host' work as expected?  I am not sure of the differences in
> implementation, but I see similar thing here - dig doesn't return
> anything on unqualified names for my internal DNS, but host does.  I get
> the impression dig doesn't read resolv.conf for anything but
> nameservers.  There is the command line switch +domain used ike so:
> dig gashuffer +domain=lobefin.net 
> which does work as expected.

Yes, host works as expected, as does dig +domain.  Thanks for the
suggestions.

How odd this all is, as I made no changes this morning when it
suddenly stopped working properly.

-- 
 Jeff

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