Bind 9 conguration problem (newbie)

[Will Yardley]

In article <ab67at$5qgo$1 at isrv4.isc.org>, The Fugitive wrote:
> 
> It's my first DNS configuration, I've read DNS-BIND HOWTO in order to
> configure it, but I've still something strange:
> 
> When a client asks for www.yahoo.fr, I get the following answer (using
> nslookup):
> 
>> www.yahoo.fr
> Server:  ns.mydomain.org
> Address:  192.168.0.1
> 
> Non-authoritative answer:
> Name:    www.yahoo.fr.mydomain.org
> Addresses:  63.149.6.91, 63.64.164.91
> 
> 'mydomain.org' is my domain. As you see, in the answer, I get the suffix for
> my domain... How may I get a "clean" answer. I think it may come from the
> fact that my DNS is caching.

i get the following answer:

aura% dig www.yahoo.fr

; <<>> DiG 9.3.0s20020328 <<>> www.yahoo.fr
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 65494
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.yahoo.fr.                  IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.yahoo.fr.           166681  IN      CNAME   www2.vip.lng.yahoo.com.
www2.vip.lng.yahoo.com. 7200    IN      A       217.12.3.11

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
lng.yahoo.com.          172800  IN      NS      ns4.yahoo.com.
lng.yahoo.com.          172800  IN      NS      ns5.yahoo.com.
lng.yahoo.com.          172800  IN      NS      ns1.yahoo.com.
lng.yahoo.com.          172800  IN      NS      ns2.yahoo.com.
lng.yahoo.com.          172800  IN      NS      ns3.yahoo.com.

;; Query time: 338 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Mon May  6 09:46:37 2002
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 172

so, two questions.

1) are you *really* looking up yahoo.fr?
2) is your domain really named 'mydomain.org'?
3) what are the contents of /etc/resolv.conf?
4) what does 'dig www.yahoo.fr.' show?  don't edit the output in any way
(including your domain name).

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