| Stephen Gran on 15 May 2006 16:07:40 -0000 |
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On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 10:58:31AM -0400, jazzman@exdomain.org said: > So I decided that, based on what I"ve heard and what I've found online, > setting up BIND for a small network shouldn't be a problem since there's > really only one zone and for all other DNS info i'll use an outside DNS. > (The DNS server i want to set up is ONLY for use by my internal network > and the outside world can't see it.) > > So now i can query the local DNS with things like hostname.exdomain.org > and i get the right response back, but if I just query for hostname it > doesn't assume exdomain.org is the extension. Does anyone know how to make > it assume a default domain extension? > > IE: If I type in webcam then I'd like bind to return the address for > webcam.exdomain.org This is a function of your local resolver, not the DNS server. On *nix machines, just add domain exdomain.org to /etc/resolv.conf Then queries will be made first for the unqualified domain, and then for the FQDN. I believe Windows has a similar functionality, but I couldn't tell you where to do it. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | new, adj.: Different color from | | steve@lobefin.net | previous model. | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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