From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 6 18:22: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx.znet.net.au (mx.znet.net.au [203.87.59.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B5CA37B403 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 18:21:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from swegg (dialup-77.120.221.203.acc02-apli-cai.comindico.com.au [203.221.120.77]) by mx.znet.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA19521 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 11:21:49 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from robbak@comnorth.com.au) Message-ID: <001c01c20dc1$b19ef8b0$fa6318ac@swegg> From: "Robert" To: "FreeBSD Support" Subject: OT - Some Name strangeness Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 10:54:49 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I recently (as noted in other post) been involved in a telstra (australia) bigpond installation. the strangness i have seen is in the names fo the pop and smtp server names. pop mail comes from pop-mail (No .bigpond.com.) and mail goes to mail-hub (again, not a FQDN). I didn't think that too strange - the DNS could treat them as local names, or could be hacked to supply the ip addresses from these apparently invalid names. However, I became competely confused when these names continued to work after I installed my BSD router and changed to it's DNS server. Also, nslookup canot resolve these names, no matter where i send the request. What is happening? how is this working??? thanks, Robert Backhaus To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message