dig hostname.domain works, dig hostname doesn't
Mark Damrose
mdamrose at elgin.cc.il.us
Tue Nov 26 20:30:05 UTC 2002
"Hoff" <google at danarily.com> wrote in message
news:as0jvv$594t$1 at isrv4.isc.org...
>
> Hello,
>
> I don't understand why I can use 'dig dad.homenet' to properly resolve
> the address but not 'dig dad'. It appears that when the domain is not
> specified, the local domain is not searched at all. But, 'host dad'
> and 'ping dad' work just fine.
> RH7.3, BIND 9.2.0
$ man dig
+[no]search
Use [do not use] the search list defined by the
searchlist or domain directive in resolv.conf (if
any). The search list is not used by default.
More information about the bind-users
mailing list