intranet hostname lookup only

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Thu May 4 21:53:03 UTC 2006


Um, OK, and neither of those constitute "setup [of] bind9" as the 
original poster requested.

                                                                         
                                    - Kevin

Ken A wrote:

>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
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>>>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.
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>>Yes, but I'm not going to tell you, because it's non-scalable, 
>>inflexible and extremely bad practice.
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>>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.
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>>                                                                         
>>                                             - Kevin
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