Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!f.word.cs.cmu.edu!eht From: eht@f.word.cs.cmu.edu (Eric Thayer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: hostname resolution Message-ID: <6262@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 25 Sep 89 14:03:39 GMT Reply-To: eht@f.word.cs.cmu.edu (Eric Thayer) Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 17 Keywords: Thanks to Pascal Chesnais and Doug Brenner for pointing out that, sadly, this behavior is a documented feature and is part of the version of BIND that NeXT uses. The BIND appendix in the SysAdmin section of the manuals says that the domain in the boot file (or resolv.conf file) is appended to names which do not contain a dot in them (hence, F.WORD does not qualify even though if BIND did append the domain it would find the name). Workarounds exist, but a better BIND would be on my wishlist for 1.1. ...eric -- Eric H. Thayer School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon (412) 268-7679 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213