Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!think!mintaka!mintaka!ang From: ang@theory.lcs.mit.edu (William S. Ang) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: shared library versions of resolver routines for SunOS ? Message-ID: Date: 11 Apr 90 15:55:30 GMT References: Sender: news@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu Followup-To: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Organization: MIT Lab for Computer Science Lines: 24 In-Reply-To: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu's message of 10 Apr 90 00:58:46 GMT In article emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes: os: sunos 4.0.3, running with the "sun-fixes" version of libc_resolv.so that puts name-server based resolver routines in the SunOS shared library. res_search -- fix to not append the local domain if there are at least two dots in the name, to avoid unneeded queries on fully specified names, i.e. none of this zip.eecs.umich.edu.math.lsa.umich.edu zip.eecs.umich.edu.lsa.umich.edu zip.eecs.umich.edu.umich.edu lookup nonsense. I have the same problem with resolver appending domain names to fullly qualified hostname. Anybody has fix for this problem? Will this be fixed in 4.1? William Ang ang@theory.lcs.mit.edu -- William Ang Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT ang@theory.lcs.mit.edu Cambridge, Massachusetts