[H-GEN] DNS server configuration query

[Edwin Groothuis]

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On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 12:59:29PM +1000, Ewan Edwards wrote:
> I'm in the process of setting up a DNS server for the sub-domain on the office 
> network using BIND 9.2.1 on RH7.3.  I have got to the point where it will 
> resolve FQDNs quite happily.  Problem is that I want it to be able to resolve 
> names of both the FQDN form and the hostname only form.  ie: I want both the 
> following commands to return the same result.
> dig hostname.long.sub.domain.name.com
> dig hostname

dig doesn't add the default domain to the name to be resolved (At
least, the bind dig doesn't)

For the rest, use /etc/resolv.conf. It's a host specific configuration,
not a DNS server configuration. But, to make it sounds not as bad
as it could, DHCP option 119 defines the domain search!

Edwin
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