resolv.conf?

[John Abreau]

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pll at lanminds.com writes:

> Which is pretty much what I stated above.  However, this does not 
> seem to be the way my resov.conf file is working:
> 
>     $ cat /etc/resolv.conf
> 
>     search eng.lab eng.foo.com corp.foo.com
>     nameserver 10.241.38.12
>     nameserver 10.241.38.13
> 
>     $ host redsox
>     redsox.eng.lab does not exist (Authoritative answer)
> 
> Yet, I know for a fact that 'redsox.eng.foo.com' does in fact exist.
> 
> The two nameservers listed are mine and run the 'eng.lab' domain, and 
> I thought were set up for recursion.  And, if I specify the domain of 
> a system, I do get a response:
> 
>     $ host redsox.eng.foo.com
>     redsox.eng.foo.com      A       10.254.140.221
> 
> Am I doing something wrong, or am I misunderstanding the /etc/
> resolv.conf file?  *Should* this work?

I've occasionally seen weird and undefined behavior like this when dealing 
with a domain that wasn't known to the root nameservers. My guess would be 
that your DNS server didn't recognize "redsox.eng.lab", punted it up to 
a root nameserver, and that root nameserver stated authoritatively that 
there is no ".lab" top-level domain. 


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