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Barry Margolin wrote:
Um, OK, and neither of those constitute "setup
[of] bind9" as the original poster requested.
So? We're not allowed to infer the higher-level goal, and must answer
based on his misunderstanding of client-side and server-side behavior?
Infer whatever you want. But, once inferred, unless one believes
that fostering shortname resolution is a good idea, one might nevertheless
prefer to hold back and answer the question exactly as asked. After
all, it's an even "higher-level goal" to nudge novice
administrators towards practices that will serve their infrastructure
and their user community well in the long term, isn't it?
Maybe you've never actually had to deal with a user community that
is addicted to shortnames and refuses to change their ways, demanding
instead that you tie your DNS infrastructure into pretzels to accommodate
their practices. So maybe you don't see the "higher-level goal"
here. But, for those of us who have to deal with these consequences
almost daily, telling someone how to facilitate shortname resolution,
where they've never had it before, is like giving a drink to an
alcoholic, giving a loaded shotgun to a suicide risk, or whatever
your favorite metaphor happens to be. As patronizing as it sounds,
sometimes one has to be cruel to be kind. Sometimes a useless answer
is the best answer, in the long run.
" Kevin
Ken A wrote:
Put "domain yourdomain.tld" in /etc/resolv.conf
or "append dns suffix" in tcp/ip properties in windows
for the client side solution to this, which is the safer thing to
do.
Ken
Pacific.Net
Kevin Darcy wrote:
baltoinfo wrote:
Is there a way to setup bind9 so that I can do a
nslookup on the hostname only and not the hostname.domain? My bind
is only for one intranet domain.
Yes, but I'm not going to tell you, because it's
non-scalable, inflexible and extremely bad practice.
Get yourself and your users in the habit of using FQDNs
(fully-qualified domain names). It'll save you a lot of headache
in the long run.
" Kevin
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