In article <mailman.957.1410786839.26362.bind-us...@lists.isc.org>, Steven Carr <sjc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15 September 2014 13:29, Lightner, Jeff <jlight...@dsservices.com> wrote: > > I've begun seeing this recently in nslookup on Windows workstations as > > well. It appears it is appending search domains even when I've specified > > an FQDN. That is I have two search domains such as ex1.com and ex2.net > > and I typed short name "ralph" for nslookup or host it would give me > > "ralph.ex1.com" IP if it existed or "ralph.ex2.net" if the ralph.ex1.com > > didn't exist and the latter did. Now what I'm seeing is even if I specify > > "ralph.ex1.com" it is looking up and failing on "ralph.ex1.com.ex2.net". > > Without the final explicit "." your name is not fully qualified. But if a name has more than ndots dots, it's supposed to be tried as given first, before adding search domains. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
