need default domain badly

[Mark Andrews]

> I work for a company that was forced to move our datacenter in lieue of
> hurricane  Rita.  I know it's not proper but let me get to the point of
> what I need.  I need to temporarly have host queries resolve to a
> domain if it's not specified because (somehow) this used to work
> before.
> 
> Example.
> Client queries for host1
>  - I need this to hit the dns server and search through my host files.
> So this would resolve to host1.mydomain.com automatically if the domain
> is not specified.  

	Add "search mydomain.com" to /etc/resolv.conf.
	Windows has a similar facility.
 
> I'm using bind 9.1.3

	Upgrade.  BIND 9.1.3 has known security problems.
 
> Thank you so much!
> 
> Brandon
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