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Organization: Bar-Ilan University Computing Center, Israel
Date: Wednesday, 24 Apr 1991 13:08:19 IST
From: Ephraim Vider <P88036@BARILVM.BITNET>
Message-ID: <91114.130819P88036@BARILVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Name Resolution
References:  <1991Apr23.185952.29156@nrcnet0.nrc.ca>

In article <1991Apr23.185952.29156@nrcnet0.nrc.ca>, RRH@vm.nrc.ca says:
>
>Hello Netters,
>Our AIX user has run into another question/problem. On our SUNs &
>SGIs  the command ping vm works. The host vm has a fully qualified name
>of  vm.nrc.ca . The AIX, SUN and SGI are in the di.nrc.ca domain.
>However  the ping vm fails and ping vm. or ping vm.nrc.ca   The
>/etc/resolv.conf has domain di.nrc.ca.  Is there any way to tell   the
>AIX machine  to behave like the others or are we stuck with it?
>Thanks in advance.     Ratilal Haria

I guess you are stuck with it. This feature "works as designed"
(IBM words).  The name resolver sticks the domain name if you don't
have a dot in the hostname, and doesn't add anything if the name has
a dot.  It never chops off domain parts as other resolvers.

                Hang on there...
                      Ephraim