newbie question

[Kevin Darcy]

This is not a nameserver function, it's a resolver configuration function.
It can be done in the resolver configuration using a default domain or a
"searchlist", but my personal recommendation is to nip this thing in the
bud as early as possible: get your users into the habit of using
fully-qualified names. Otherwise, they'll very likely get confused over
the "inconsistency" of being able to use short names for some hosts and
protocols, but having to use fully-qualified names for others, e.g. for
email to other companies. Also, any kind of resolver "searching" or
"matching" algorithm tends to generate lots of bogus queries and thus
waste valuable DNS infrastructure resources.


- Kevin

fishbone_31 at my-deja.com wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I recently set up a DNS server (bind8.2.2 on RH 6.2). It's running fine
> but for local users I want non-qualified host names to be solved the
> same way as if they were qualified.
>
> i.e.: my domain is "whatever.com"
> I want host1 to be solved by typing
>
> # host host1.whatever.com
> host1.whatever.com is 172.24.5.1
>
> or
>
> # host host1
> host1.whatever.com is 172.24.5.1
>
> How can I get DNS behave this way?
> Thanks,
> Mounir.
>
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