queries

[Eric Benoit]

So I should add an extra domain like secure.intranet and make intranet 
the master then all my server names would be apart of the master?

Mark Andrews wrote:
>>sorry about that, I am new :)
>>
>>I am using a debian 3.1 sarge ppc build running BIND 9.3.1. as my DNS 
>>server.
>>
>>All the clients on my class C network have it's IP 
>>address(192.168.1.16(sting)) listed as the first DNS server. The client 
>>computers are a mixture of win98, winXP and linux.  Some of the client 
>>computers are able to get to Internal servers some are not. The client 
>>computers that cannot get to our Internal servers via its hostname act 
>>strangly, when I use nslookup (a microsoft tool) to lookup "secure" the 
>>DNS appears to be working just fine.
>>
>>example:
>>
>>client computer A can get to http://secure through a browser
>>but
>>client computer B goes to http://f-secure.com instead of http://secure 
>>like it is supposed to using a browser
>>
>>"secure" is the name of a server listed on my DNS server as a master zone
>>
>>
>>Here is the entry for "secure":
>>
>>$ttl 38400
>>secure.	IN	SOA	secure. eric.hopevale.com. (
>>			1115035962
>>			10800
>>			3600
>>			604800
>>			38400 )
>>secure.	IN	NS	sting.
>>secure.	5D	IN	A	192.168.1.18
> 
> 
> 	
> 	Single label hostnames went away 20 years ago.  Resolvers and
> 	applications treat them as unqualified hostnames and try to
> 	qualify them.
> 
> 	Mark
>  
> 
>>John Hascall wrote:
>>
>>>>Greetings, I set up an internal DNS with BIND 9.3.1
>>>>Everything seemed to be working great until I went to a couple of 
>>>>different clients and the lookups ...well they didn't really fail, but 
>>>>the client couldn't resolve to my internal hosts ...could it be the 
>>>>clients?  I am using a class c network and allowed queries from 
>>>>192.168.1.0/24.
>>>
>>>
>>>>I do nslookup from the client and everything works things resolve, but 
>>>>the browser adds .com??
>>>
>>>
>>>>I know this is prolly simple, just stuck.
>>>
>>>
>>>You didn't really provide enough details to be sure, but if the client
>>>is a Unix/Linux-type look at /etc/resolv.conf, in particular lines
>>>like:
>>>
>>>   domain com
>>>or
>>>   search ... com ...
>>>
>>>and
>>>   options ndots:N
>>>
>>>where N is some number.  Doing "man resolv.conf" should be of some
>>>assistance in determining what you really want there.
>>>
>>>If it is a Windows machine, there is probably some similar control panel.
>>>
>>>
>>>John
>>>
>>
>>
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