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Date:      Sat, 29 Jun 1996 15:00:38 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        nate@mt.sri.com
Subject:   Re: BIND/named experts?
Message-ID:  <199606291300.PAA28261@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960628231612.332A-100000@misery.sdf.com> from Tom Samplonius at "Jun 28, 96 11:21:45 pm"

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As Tom Samplonius wrote:

>   This is the standard resolver behaviour.  It tries with the domain name
> appended first, and if that fails, it will try without.
> 
>   I suspect that the second query it not working because your name server
> is not authoritative for the .sri.com.

The usual workaround for this is making your nameserver authoritative
for sri.com, i.e., make it an unofficial secondary.  That's the
essence of the stuff i once gave to you, Nate. :)  (I'm still using
this myself here, behind a part-time dialup SLIP connection.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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