My DNS appears to append?

[Andy Walden]

Actually I realize now that nslookup adds a . to the end of any query. The
problem now boils down to I can't resolve the domain afaw.af.mil from a
specific nameserver and apparently their nameservers
(ns01.afaw.af.mil, ns01...) cannot resolve mine (mtco.com)?
Any thoughts? Thanks.

andy

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On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Andy Walden wrote:

> 
> I am having trouble resolving a specific domain from a specific server.
> Using nslookup it appears that somewhere my domain is being appended to
> the queried domain. Any thoughts why? Here is what I see:
> 
> > afaw.af.mil Server:  ns.mtco.com Address:  0.0.0.0
> 
> ;; res_nmkquery(QUERY, afaw.af.mil, IN, A)  ------------ Got answer: 
>     HEADER: 
>         opcode = QUERY, id = 7913, rcode = NXDOMAIN
>         header flags:  response, want recursion, recursion avail. 
>         questions = 1, answers = 0, authority records = 1, additional = 0
> 
>     QUESTIONS: 
>         afaw.af.mil, type = A, class = IN
>     AUTHORITY RECORDS: 
>     -> af.mil
>         ttl = 10487 (2h54m47s) 
>         origin = mars.af.mil
>         mail addr = dnsman.afnoc.af.mil
>         serial = 2000020302
>         refresh = 43200 (12H) 
>         retry = 900 (15M) 
>         expire = 604800 (1W) 
>         minimum ttl = 86400 (1D) 
> 
> 
> ------------
> ;; res_nmkquery(QUERY, afaw.af.mil.mtco.com, IN, A)
> ------------
> Got answer:
>     HEADER:
>         opcode = QUERY, id = 40736, rcode = NXDOMAIN
>         header flags:  response, auth. answer, want recursion, recursion
> avail.
>         questions = 1,  answers = 0,  authority records = 1,  additional =
> 0
> 
>     QUESTIONS:
>         afaw.af.mil.mtco.com, type = A, class = IN
>     AUTHORITY RECORDS:
>     ->  mtco.com
>         ttl = 86400 (1D)
>         origin = ns.mtco.com
>         mail addr = hostmaster.mtco.com
>         serial = 2000020202
>         refresh = 3600 (1H)
>         retry   = 3600 (1H)
>         expire  = 1209600 (2W)
>         minimum ttl = 86400 (1D)
> 
> ------------
> *** ns.mtco.com can't find afaw.af.mil: Non-existent host/domain
> 
> 
>