From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 31 5:22:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bilver.wjv.com (dhcp-1-119.n01.orldfl01.us.ra.verio.net [157.238.210.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A071137B401 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 05:22:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@bilver.wjv.com) Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.wjv.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f6VCMFE40684 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 08:22:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bill) Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 08:22:15 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS weirdnewss Message-ID: <20010731082215.B40620@wjv.com> Reply-To: bv@wjv.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from owner-freebsd-stable-digest@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 02:03:31AM -0700 Organization: W.J.Vermillion / Orlando - Winter Park Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > weirdness with DNS > Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 12:06:35 -0400 (EDT) > From: Matt Heckaman > Subject: weirdness with DNS > > - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I started seeing this a long time ago, but since it doesn't break anything > (well, not really) I never got around to writing this email about it. I > have a machine running 4.3-STABLE as of April 21 2001. When I do a DNS > lookup on a host that does not exist, it postfixes my domain onto the > lookup instead of saying Unknown host... At first, I thought there was a > wildcard DNS entry for lucida.ca, but there isn't. This does not occur > from any other machines on the LAN, all of which use the same nameservers. The only time I recall seeing this is when I had a missing "." somewhere in the file. Get 'nslint' from the ports and run that against your DNS to see if you don't spot a problem. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message