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From: de5@ornl.gov (Dave Sill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Resolver
Message-ID: <1991May17.193427.21311@cs.utk.edu>
Date: 17 May 91 19:34:27 GMT
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Reply-To: Dave Sill <de5@ornl.gov>
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I'm trying to figure out how the BIND resolver is supposed to work.
Say I'm on a machine named sws3.ctd.ornl.gov and I have the following
in my /etc/resolv.conf:

domain ORNL.GOV
domain CTD.ORNL.GOV
nameserver 128.219.128.24
nameserver 128.219.8.5

Which of the following addresses will be resolved?

FQDN ornl.gov:
    ornl
    ornl.gov
FQDN foo.ornl.gov:
    foo
    foo.ornl
    foo.ornl.gov
FQDN bar.ctd.ornl.gov:
    bar
    bar.ctd
    bar.ctd.ornl
    bar.ctd.ornl.gov
FQDN baz.qux.ornl.gov:
    baz
    baz.qux
    baz.qux.ornl
    baz.qux.ornl.gov

Do I need to exhaustively list the X.ornl.gov subdomains in my
resolv.conf to be able to resolve all hosts by their unqualified
hostname?  Am I missing some way to get all .ornl.gov addresses
resolved?  I did RTFM, but didn't find anything on this subject.

-- 
Dave Sill (de5@ornl.gov)	  It will be a great day when our schools have
Martin Marietta Energy Systems    all the money they need and the Air Force
Workstation Support               has to hold a bake sale to buy a new bomber.