Newbie nslookup question - finding hosts in local domain

[Razvan Bruma]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Patrick Lamb wrote:

> Apologies in advance; I'm sure this is in the documentation or the
> dragonfly book, but I haven't been able to find it.
> 
> I can't find any records when I omit the domain.  For instance,
>      nslookup moon
> reports no records, whereas
>      nslookup moon.village.business.com
> will return the desired IP address.  What am I missing?
> 
> 		Pat
 
	Of course you can't, because there is no such TLD. But having a
line like
	search village.business.com 
in your resolv.conf might help.	 


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Razvan Bruma
Unix System Administrator
email: razvan at rartel.ro