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Date:      Fri, 13 Aug 1999 08:35:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Rich Wilson <rwilson@gvpl.victoria.bc.ca>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   DNS question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908130825020.10527-100000@pochta.gvpl.victoria.bc.ca>

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This isn't strictly a FreeBSD question, but I'm hoping someone here can
help me out.

I'm running
FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE #0: Sun Jan 10 19:12:57 PST 1999
and I also get the problem on
FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE (SPIDER) #0: Thu Oct  8 14:30:19 PDT 1998

I am unable to ping cbca.micromedia.on.ca

(I get 'ping: cannot resolve cbca.micromedia.on.ca: Unknown host')

although I can use nslookup with ns 199.60.118.2 to get:

Name:    cbca-prod.micromedia.on.ca
Address:  204.187.104.128
Aliases:  cbca.micromedia.on.ca, cbca_prod.micromedia.on.ca

I CAN ping cbca-prod.micromedia.on.ca

I realize the _ in cbca_prod not recommended, but should the existence of
an alternate incorrect alias cause the resolver to fail?  The site in
question already changed the name from cbca_prod to cbca-prod at my
request, and also added the extra alias, cbca_prod.

    __o
   -\<,   Rich
   O/ O



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