SRV query with no domain?

[WBrown at e1b.org]

kevin wrote on 08/15/2012 12:52:18 PM:

> I don't believe SRV lookups use the "search" directive in /etc/
> resolv.conf; I think that's only for A (name-to-address) lookups. 
> But I could be wrong on that...

Using host I was able to do a search for _sip._tcp for the search domain 
on my system (domain changed to example.org):

wbrown at wbrown-D630:~$ host -t srv _sip._tcp
_sip._tcp.example.org has SRV record 0 0 5060 tandberg-vcse.example.org.
wbrown at wbrown-D630:~$ host -t srv _sip._tcp.example.org
_sip._tcp.example.org has SRV record 0 0 5060 tandberg-vcse.example.org.

Dig fails on same query without domain, succeeds if it is included:

wbrown at wbrown-D630:~$ dig +short  _sip._tcp srv
wbrown at wbrown-D630:~$ dig +short  _sip._tcp.example.org srv
0 0 5060 tandberg-vcse.example.org.



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