resolving ipaddress without zone

[Kerry Liles]

Or you can supply the default domain suffix via DHCP along with the other
stuff that DHCP provides...

HTH


"Matt MacGillivray1" <mattm at delfour.com> wrote in message
news:9etvcg$6ru at pub3.rc.vix.com...
>
> But this will not solve the problem globally.  It means I must go to each
> machine to configure this.  How can I configure it so that the dns does
all
> this work for me?
>
> I've setup the resolv.conf file as follows:
> search delfour.com
> nameserver 127.0.0.1
>
> which works on the server itself, but doesn't work for each individual
> windows workstation.. how can I acheive this?
>
>
>
> Matt MacGillivray
> Technical Developer
> Delfour Corporation
> 905-415-9779 x2021
> mattm at delfour.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Storck [mailto:mstorck at ibone.org]
> Sent: May 28, 2001 12:18 PM
> To: Matt MacGillivray1
> Subject: Re: resolving ipaddress without zone
>
>
> you have to tell windows to look for the suffix delfour.com in case
> servername does not resolve....
>
> you can do this in the Control Panel under Network...
>
> Marc
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Matt MacGillivray1 <mattm at delfour.com>
> À : Bind (E-mail) <bind-users at isc.org>
> Date : Montag, 28. Mai 2001 17:55
> Objet : resolving ipaddress without zone
>
>
> >
> >
> >I have an internal network which has many windows users.  My dns
(whatever
> >version of bind is packaged with linux 6.2) is setup and responding well
to
> >all requests..  I've got my dns setup so that it only handle internal
> >addresses, all others are forwarded to my ISPs dns.  what I would like to
> do
> >is the following:
> >
> >>From each users workstation, I can telnet to a server like this: "telnet
> >servername.delfour.com".  How can I setup my config files so that I can
> >acheive the same result as "telnet servername.delfour.com" but issue
> "telnet
> >servername"?
> >
> >Similarly, how can I set this up so that users, in their web browsers,
can
> >enter "http://servername" instead of "http://servername.delfour.com"?
> >
> >Just for clarification, each of these would only occur while connected to
> >the internal network.  I know it's possible with hosts files (anything
> is..)
> >but would like to leverage the dns server..
> >
> >I've looked in the documentation and tried to search the existing emails
> but
> >didn't have much luck.  I am a novice bind user, so any help would be
> >appreciated.
> >
> >Matt MacGillivray
> >Technical Developer
> >Delfour Corporation
> >905-415-9779 x2021
> >mattm at delfour.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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