Named 4.9.7-REL and Default Domains?

Dave A. Flanigan dave at flanigan.net
Thu Aug 19 00:35:04 UTC 1999


In short:
	Know of any way to get named 4.9.7 to supply a domain name for  un-fully 
qualified hosts?

In long:
	I am running BIND on BSDI 4.01 and am having problems with Windows PPP 
clients (dialup to Cisco AS5300) who are running Lotus Notes. (Ick).

Lotus Notes doesn't provide FQDN for its queries from client to server. And 
I am not having much luck getting BIND to use a default domain.



I have created a resolve.conf with the following information:

search ourdomain.com ourdomain2.com ourdomain3.com
nameserver 208.43.1.3


However still no go. When I run named with the named.boot file command of 
"options query-log" I can see the queries in the log, and it doesn't look 
like they are getting completed.

Here is a small log cut, the first 3 are notes clients, and the last 3 are 
web surfers:

Aug 18 13:04:23 ns named[1490]: XX /x.x.x.200/notes02/A
Aug 18 13:04:32 ns named[1490]: XX /x.x.x.120/notes01/A
Aug 18 13:04:45 ns named[1490]: XX /x.x.x.200/notes02/A
Aug 18 13:15:48 ns named[1490]: XX /x.x.x.42/previewtravel.aol.com/A
Aug 18 13:15:52 ns named[1490]: XX /x.x.x.12/www.previewtravel.com/A
Aug 18 13:15:53 ns named[1490]: XX /x.x.x.72/view.avenuea.com/A

Note the short name provided by the notes clients, and the fully qualified 
domains by the web servers.

Putting named into debug dosn't help much either (perhaps due to my lack of 
experience in reading its output).

Know of any way to force it to provide a default domain?

Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated. 


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