de5@ornl.gov (Dave Sill) (05/18/91)
I'm trying to figure out how the BIND resolver is supposed to work.
Say I'm on a machine named sws3.ctd.ornl.gov and I have the following
in my /etc/resolv.conf:
domain ORNL.GOV
domain CTD.ORNL.GOV
nameserver 128.219.128.24
nameserver 128.219.8.5
Which of the following addresses will be resolved?
FQDN ornl.gov:
ornl
ornl.gov
FQDN foo.ornl.gov:
foo
foo.ornl
foo.ornl.gov
FQDN bar.ctd.ornl.gov:
bar
bar.ctd
bar.ctd.ornl
bar.ctd.ornl.gov
FQDN baz.qux.ornl.gov:
baz
baz.qux
baz.qux.ornl
baz.qux.ornl.gov
Do I need to exhaustively list the X.ornl.gov subdomains in my
resolv.conf to be able to resolve all hosts by their unqualified
hostname? Am I missing some way to get all .ornl.gov addresses
resolved? I did RTFM, but didn't find anything on this subject.
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