Do you have a search domain in resolv.conf?
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, James wrote:
> I'm hoping this will be simple, I ran into this issue before but don't
> remember what I did to resolve it.
>
> I'm setting up a DNS in my house, it almost works. Nslookup returns
> the correct values but when I try to ssh to a system I have to add a
> period to the end of the system name for ssh to work.
>
> here is some of the information from named.conf
>
> options {
> directory "/var/named";
> dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
> statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
> /*
> * If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
> * to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
> * directive below. Previous versions of BIND always asked
> * questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
> * port by default.
> */
> // query-source address * port 53;
> };
>
>
> zone "43p." IN {
> type master;
> file "43p_0.db";
> };
> zone "router." IN {
> type master;
> file "router_0.db";
> };
> zone "41t." IN {
> type master;
> file "41t_0.db";
> };
>
>
> Here is an example of the zone files
>
> $TTL 1H
> @ SOA 43p.home.local. root.dell.home.local. ( 2
> 3H
> 1H
> 1W
> 1H )
> NS 43p.home.local.
> A 192.168.1.50
>
>
> Thanks
>
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-Yaron
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