Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:18:00 +0100 From: "Michael Ross" <gmx@ross.cx> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Moritz Wilhelmy" <moritz@wzff.de> Subject: Re: Disable automatic "Fallback" IP on 9.0-RC2 when a hostname cannot be resolved Message-ID: <op.v5kc0atcg7njmm@michael-think> In-Reply-To: <20111126154422.GR16096@barfooze.de> References: <20111126154422.GR16096@barfooze.de>
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Am 26.11.2011, 16:44 Uhr, schrieb Moritz Wilhelmy <moritz@wzff.de>: > Hello, > > my 9.0-RC2 installation on furnace.wzff.de keeps connecting to wzff.de > if a hostname cannot be resolved. E.g. telnet foobar 25 connects me to > the SMTP server on wzff.de, same thing for another jail that uses a > subdomain of barfooze.de and tries to connect to barfooze.de if it can't > find a suitable DNS or /etc/hosts record. > > I dislike when computers try to be smart like this, and I can't really > think how this is useful, and it also doesn't happen on another machine > that has a subdomain of something set as hostname and is running 8.2, so > I want to disable it. Can anyone give me a hint how to do it? Add e. g. ``search local'' to /etc/resolv.conf. The behaviour is explained in man resolv.conf, "search". Or disable wildcard entries in your dns server config. Regards, Michael
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