Bind 9 conguration problem (newbie)

[Barry Margolin]

In article <ab6tv2$6c0f$1 at isrv4.isc.org>,
The Fugitive <fugitif at altern.org> wrote:
>The 'dig' command returns the right answer... without any problem.
>Now I'm looking in my /etc/resolv.conf, because I think the mistake in
>'nslookup' comes from it.

/etc/resolv.conf specifies the default domain suffix to append, but that
should only be done if the normal lookup fails.  Unless you're running a
system with a *very* old resolver library -- many early resolvers would try
appending the default domain *before* trying the name as given.

Current resolvers append the default domain first if the given name has not
dots, and try the name as given if it does.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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