Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 10:54:49 +1000 From: "Robert" <robbak@comnorth.com.au> To: "FreeBSD Support" <freeBSD-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: OT - Some Name strangeness Message-ID: <001c01c20dc1$b19ef8b0$fa6318ac@swegg>
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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
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