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Date:      Sat, 14 Mar 1998 12:13:49 +0000
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        tom@tomqnx.com (Tom Torrance at home)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: named question 
Message-ID:  <199803141213.MAA07219@awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Mar 1998 12:59:56 EST." <m0yDYkO-00086LC@TomQNX.tomqnx.com> 

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> 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 <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
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