I have both the search and domain defined in my /etc/resolv.conf file. On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > > -Yaron > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >