dig and the searchlist

[Uwe Gansert]

On Tuesday 06 September 2005 16:22, Brad Knowles wrote:

> 	I tried dig from BIND-9.3.1, and while it doesn't complain about
> ndots being set and does show ndots being a supported parameter, it
> also doesn't seem to work the way that would be expected.

so at least I know that Im not the only one :)
That's important information for me, so thanks that you tried it.

> 	From that point on, the response is pretty predictable.  I don't
> know what's going on.  I don't know if this is a bug or a "feature".

so we are two :) But since dig behaves different than documented, I would 
assume that as a bug and not as a feature. I hope someone can clear that 
up.

I think nslookup has the same problem. So maybe it's in the resolver library 
they both use.

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ciao, Uwe Gansert

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