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From: ced@bcstec.uucp (Charles Derykus)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: AIX DNS bug?
Message-ID: <640@bcstec.boeing.com>
Date: 31 Jan 91 17:40:37 GMT
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  I'm having a domain name resolution problem with AIX. Apparently, recursive
lookup toward the root does not work, e.g.,

  suppose the machine "shoalcreek" is the "austin.ibm.com" domain and
          the machine "brazos"  is the "ibm.com" domain
     

  from "shoalcreek", I try to telnet to "brazos":

       shoalcreek# telnet brazos

  If you're on nameservice this should work.  Your "austin.ibm.com" nameserver
   won't find "brazos.austin.ibm.com" and so will pass the request up through
   cache to the nameserver for "ibm.com" who finds "brazos.ibm.com" in its
   domain and so sends successful resolution back to "shoalcreek".

  Only it doesn't work.  In our case here at Boeing with a comparable scenario 
it just returns "unknown host".

Has anyone encountered this?  Any help much appreciated.


Charles DeRykus				Internet:   ced@bcstec.boeing.com
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