Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!fauern!tumuc!lan!charly.bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de!k2 From: k2@charly.bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Klaus Steinberger) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: shared library versions of resolver routines for SunOS ? Message-ID: <1848@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> Date: 12 Apr 90 06:33:39 GMT References: Sender: news@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de Lines: 38 ang@theory.lcs.mit.edu (William S. Ang) writes: >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? Yeah, but here in Germany we have an deeper hierarchy in the domains, so the simple solution of counting two dots is not very good! Names here look like: charly.bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de So if I want to connect to this machine outside of the physics, but inside my university, i want to type "charly.bl.physik" . If the resolver simply counts the two dots and then refuses to append the domain names, it will not work. Then I have to write down the full address. That's annoying. Sincerely, Klaus Steinberger Klaus Steinberger Beschleunigerlabor der TU und LMU Muenchen Phone: (+49 89)3209 4287 Hochschulgelaende, D-8046 Garching, West Germany BITNET: K2@DGABLG5P Internet: k2@charly.bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de