From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 14 04:20:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA01723 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 04:20:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA01672 for ; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 04:20:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA07219; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 12:13:49 GMT (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199803141213.MAA07219@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: tom@tomqnx.com (Tom Torrance at home) cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: named question In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 13 Mar 1998 12:59:56 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 12:13:49 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Pardon my ignorance, but... > > How can I force named to look up my domain "tomqnx.com" before it checks "com". > My named thinks it is authoratative, but the rest of the internet does not > agree - I am behind a demand-dial ijppp connection. I particularly want > to block names like "mail" to be resolved locally, rather than forcing > a dial-up connection to do the DNS thing. > > Please respond via e-mail, as I am not subscribed to "questions". You may want to try ``options no_tld_query'' in /etc/resolv.conf. This stops names with zero ``.''s from being looked up as a root domain - instead they're just subjected to your ``domain'' and ``search'' list. > Thanks in advance! > > Tom -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message