In message <54eba9b8.2000...@tlinx.org>, "L. A. Walsh" writes: > > > > > Something seems to have changed on my network setup > (windows workstation using a linux-server for internet-interaction > including DNS running bind). > > For some reason when I look up a local host name, > > 'myputer' I can't get it to return an addr, > and instead it appears to be querying root servers > for domain 'myputer'.
Check your DHCP configuration. There is a DHCP option that is used to set the default search path. > when I try using a "dig myputer" on the server, > it comes back with NXDOMAIN. > > How can I tell bind server that if a hostname has no dots, don't > go off and query somewhere? You can't. All queries named get are absolute. The client decides if a presented name is relative or not. > (below is checked and local information)... > > Thanks (I hope)... > > > my /etc/resolv.conf > has an options "ndots:2", but even if not used, > doesn't dig default to a minimum of 1 'dot' as > normal cutoff before treating it as an absolute name? ndots or less is treated as relative then absolute. > I have "+search" for it to use my searchlist > in resolv.conf as well to only search in internal domains: > > search hs.tlinx.org sc.tlinx.org > > Current version am using: > > BIND 9.9.2-P2 built with '--prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' > '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--localstatedir=/var' > '--libdir=/usr/lib64' '--includedir=/usr/include/bind' > '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--with-openssl' > '--enable-threads' '--with-libtool' '--enable-runidn' '--with-libxml2' > '--with-dlz-mysql' '--with-dlz-ldap' 'CFLAGS=-fmessage-length=0 > -grecord-gcc-switches -O2 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector > -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -g -DNO_VERSION_DATE > -fno-strict-aliasing' 'LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib64' > using OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013 > -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org _______________________________________________ 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
