Sorry had to say use dig instead of M$'s nslookup. It WILL save your life. /shameless-plug On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:26:50 -0500, James <jucziz6 at gmail.com> 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 -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments