Re: why one shouldn't use relative hostnames

2010-11-12 Thread Maria Iano
Thank you both and Kevin I for one would really appreciate if you would compose that web page and put it out there! On Nov 11, 2010, at 8:40 AM, Stacey Jonathan Marshall wrote: Additionally a wildcard record in one of the the searched domains would cause a false positive to be returned causi

Re: why one shouldn't use relative hostnames

2010-11-11 Thread Stacey Jonathan Marshall
Additionally a wildcard record in one of the the searched domains would cause a false positive to be returned causing an outage to the service/services. And if your not in control of the zone or the search order it could be difficult to rectify. -Stacey On 11/11/2010 00:30, Kevin Darcy wrote

Re: why one shouldn't use relative hostnames

2010-11-11 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Maria Iano : We are working with a software vendor whose software only works with relative hostnames - they say it can't cope with a fully-qualified domain name. They want us to make sure the necessary domain is in all clients' search lists. Does anyone have any good references fo

Re: why one shouldn't use relative hostnames

2010-11-10 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 11/10/2010 1:19 PM, Maria Iano wrote: We are working with a software vendor whose software only works with relative hostnames - they say it can't cope with a fully-qualified domain name. They want us to make sure the necessary domain is in all clients' search lists. Does anyone have any goo

why one shouldn't use relative hostnames

2010-11-10 Thread Maria Iano
We are working with a software vendor whose software only works with relative hostnames - they say it can't cope with a fully-qualified domain name. They want us to make sure the necessary domain is in all clients' search lists. Does anyone have any good references for me to explanations of why