DNS query with no domain
Matthew Pounsett
matt at conundrum.com
Mon Aug 18 19:03:45 UTC 2008
On 18-Aug-2008, at 14:47 , Prabhat Rana wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> I have a requirement that the querying applications get the IP
> addresses when the query doesn't include a domain name. For example
> instead of http://mms.ora.com the clients will try to access http://mms
This is actually accomplished by configuring a domain search order on
the client systems (at the stub resolver) not on your DNS servers. On
unix systems, this is done with the 'search' directive in the /etc/
resolv.conf file. On Windows systems, the DNS search order is
configurable in the network preferences where you set up your DNS
servers. If you're using DHCP, you can supply the DNS search order as
one of the elements that the DHCP server hands out, with most DHCP
servers.
Hope this helps,
Matt
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