queries

[Eric Benoit]

Worked!!  Thanks Mark.

Eric Benoit wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>--
>>Mark Andrews, ISC
>>1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
>>PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews at isc.org
>>
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