intranet hostname lookup only

[Ken A]

Put "domain yourdomain.tld" in /etc/resolv.conf or "append dns suffix" 
in tcp/ip properties in windows for the client side solution to this, 
which is the safer thing to do.
Ken
Pacific.Net


Kevin Darcy wrote:
> baltoinfo wrote:
> 
>> Is there a way to setup bind9 so that I can do a nslookup on the
>> hostname only and not the hostname.domain? My bind is only for one
>> intranet domain.
>>
> Yes, but I'm not going to tell you, because it's non-scalable, 
> inflexible and extremely bad practice.
> 
> Get yourself and your users in the habit of using FQDNs (fully-qualified 
> domain names). It'll save you a lot of headache in the long run.
> 
>                                                                          
>                                              - Kevin
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