Newbie nslookup question - finding hosts in local domain

[Kevin Darcy]

pdlamb at bellsouth.net 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?

This is a function of your resolver configuration. Do you have a
"domain" directive in your /etc/resolv.conf?


- Kevin