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From: HATHAWA@gecrdvm1.crd.ge.com (Barry Hathaway)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: BIND Problem with DS5000
Message-ID: <91038.123937HATHAWA@gecrdvm1.crd.ge.com>
Date: 7 Feb 91 16:39:37 GMT
References: <1991Jan31.123044.1348@urz.unibas.ch>
Organization: General Electric Corporate Research & Development
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In article <1991Jan31.123044.1348@urz.unibas.ch>, doelz@urz.unibas.ch says:
>
>Problem: DS5000/200, Ultrix 4.1, BIND cache-only nameserver.
>
>The telnet call to any node not on the local backbone appends
>the domain name to the NS query. e.g.,
>
># telnet gatekeeper.dec.com
..........
>    dns.questions:
>            name gatekeeper.dec.com.unibas.ch

To prevent telnet from appending your local domain place a dot at the
end of the hostname.  That is:
    telnet gatekeeper.dec.com.