intranet hostname lookup only

[Kevin Darcy]

Barry Margolin wrote:

>In article <e3dvi9$2iri$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
> Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
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>>Um, OK, and neither of those constitute "setup [of] bind9" as the 
>>original poster requested.
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>So?  We're not allowed to infer the higher-level goal, and must answer 
>based on his misunderstanding of client-side and server-side behavior?
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Infer whatever you want. But, once inferred, unless one believes that 
fostering shortname resolution is a good idea, one might nevertheless 
prefer to hold back and answer the question exactly as asked. After all, 
it's an even "higher-level goal" to nudge novice administrators towards 
practices that will serve their infrastructure and their user community 
well in the long term, isn't it?

Maybe you've never actually had to deal with a user community that is 
addicted to shortnames and refuses to change their ways, demanding 
instead that you tie your DNS infrastructure into pretzels to 
accommodate their practices. So maybe you don't see the "higher-level 
goal" here. But, for those of us who have to deal with these 
consequences almost daily, telling someone how to facilitate shortname 
resolution, where they've never had it before, is like giving a drink to 
an alcoholic, giving a loaded shotgun to a suicide risk, or whatever 
your favorite metaphor happens to be. As patronizing as it sounds, 
sometimes one has to be cruel to be kind. Sometimes a useless answer is 
the *best* answer, in the long run.

                                                                         
                  - Kevin

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>>>Put "domain yourdomain.tld" in /etc/resolv.conf or "append dns suffix" 
>>>in tcp/ip properties in windows for the client side solution to this, 
>>>which is the safer thing to do.
>>>Ken
>>>Pacific.Net
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>>>>>Is there a way to setup bind9 so that I can do a nslookup on the
>>>>>hostname only and not the hostname.domain? My bind is only for one
>>>>>intranet domain.
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>>>>Yes, but I'm not going to tell you, because it's non-scalable, 
>>>>inflexible and extremely bad practice.
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>>>>Get yourself and your users in the habit of using FQDNs (fully-qualified 
>>>>domain names). It'll save you a lot of headache in the long run.
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>>>>                                            - Kevin
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