Lookup question
Tony Moran
tony_moran at NO+SPAMhotmail.com
Thu Aug 19 11:30:52 UTC 1999
Hi all,
I have 3 sub-domains say - horror.movie.edu, comedy.movie.edu and
sci-fi.movie.edu
Each has its own pair of primary and slave name servers.
How should I set up the configuration of each nameserver to allow
unqualified hostname lookups
for hosts in the other domains ? - or should this behaviour be entirely
taken care of on the client -
domains to perform the lookups on ?
the reason I ask is after a major DNS upgrade of european region
nameservers, clients are now
experiencing difficulties resolving hostnames of machines in the other
domains. ie. before,
clients in horror.movie.edu were able to resolv a hostname in
comedy.movie.edu [smartin.comedy.movie.edu]
by simply doing a lookup on the unqualified hostname [smartin] But now
they cant, and none of the
clients configurations have changed - only that of my local nameservers.
Even on my primary nameserver I cannot do lookups on hosts in other
sub-domains on the same level of our
'domain tree' despite having that domain listed in the search order in
my resolv.conf.
What is the norm here ? Should this be resolved on the client side or
the nameserver side anyway ?
/Shouold/ hostnames not in the immediate domain always be looked up
using the FQDN ?
If anyone can help or fill me in here I'd really appreciate it,
Cheers, Tony
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