nxdomain

[Chris Thompson]

On Aug 29 2013, Mark Andrews wrote:

>The fix will be to only go onto the next element of the search list
>on nxdomain.  Searches really should stop on REFUSED, SERVFAIL,
>NOERROR, NOTIMP.

Regardless of the stopping rule, host and nslookup ought to display
the FQDN they are claiming to get (say) an NXDOMAIN for, rather than
the unqualified one. The OP would probably have been a lot less
mystified if the message had been

Host www.undernet.org.my-domain.example not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

rather than

Host www.undernet.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

-- 
Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 at cam.ac.uk