Bind expanding domain query using search path?

[Mark Damrose]

"David Botham" <dns at botham.net> wrote in message
news:and0j9$6ipd$1 at isrv4.isc.org...
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> > Behalf Of Erik Enge
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 4:09 PM
> > To: bind-users at isc.org
> > Subject: Bind expanding domain query using search path?
> >
> > Hi.
> >
> > I have two domains; office1.co office2.co
> >
> > I have two machines; machine1 (in office1.co) machine2 (in office2.co)
> >
> > I'm running RedHat 7.2 (x86) and bind 9.2.1.
> >
> > Everything seems to be working as it should, but I have a question of
> > whether or not I can make this work:
> >
> >   dig machine1
> >
> > At the moment, it gives this output:
> >
> >   eenge at eenge:~$ dig machine1
> >
> >   ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> machine1
> >   ;; global options:  printcmd
> >   ;; Got answer:
> >   ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 20766
> >   ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
> >
> >   ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> >   ;machine1.                         IN      A
[snip]
> >
> > It would be great if it (bind) could try
> > machine1.[office1.co,office2.co] before going to the root-servers.
>
>
> It is not bind that is responsible for this action, it is your dns
> client(resolver).  See the man page for resolv.conf, specifically the
> domain and search directives.
>
> Dave...

By default dig doesn't use your resolv.conf search directives.  Use dig
+search.

>
> >
> > Is there a way I can do this?  I understand there would be stupidity
> > happening if I rename machine2 in office2.co to machine1.q
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Erik.
>
>
>