From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 6 18:49:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx.znet.net.au (mx.znet.net.au [203.87.59.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 591F537B406 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 18:48:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from swegg (dialup-77.120.221.203.acc02-apli-cai.comindico.com.au [203.221.120.77]) by mx.znet.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA23825 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 11:48:48 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from robbak@comnorth.com.au) Message-ID: <002701c20dc5$76eff170$fa6318ac@swegg> From: "Robert" To: "FreeBSD Support" Subject: Re: OT - Some Name strangeness Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 11:48:43 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes That's what I thought. But when I installed the router, and dhcpd'ed with the routers DNS and domain, it didn't kill it. If that was the answer, it would be looking up mail-hub.flexi.robbak.com, which I _know_doesn't exist. strange. >>It seems to me that most systems will append their domain name to the host name if it's not fully qualified. i.e.: My hostname is me.domain.com I'm trying to resolve smtp-server and it fails, so I try smtp-server.domain.com. Would that explain what's happening? I believe this is a standard action for any resolver library to take. nslookup won't do it, however. nslookup only attempts to resolve exactly what you tell it to To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message