James Graham - Systems Mangler writes:
> To contribute to the BIND issues, I find some interesting problems with
> -current BIND.

> Say you live in an environment in which machines are of the form

>         foo.bar.baz.quux

> where foo is the machine.  Say you want to get to another machine
> in a parallel subdomain, such as

> 	bar.foo.baz.quux

> Under previous versions of BIND (the one under StunOS comes to mind),
> one can simply, from machine foo(.bar.baz.quux), say:

> 	# ping bar.foo

> and the resolver will automagically begin adding parts of the domain name
> beyond the unresolved point, i.e.

> 	TRY	bar.foo.	...FAIL
> 	TRY	bar.foo.baz.	...FAIL
> 	TRY	bar.foo.baz.quux.	...OK

> Why is this now broken?


It's not. BIND 4.9.3 follows RFC 1535 that says that by default,
the search list is just the domainname. Check doc/rfc/rfc1535 in
the BIND source for more info

To get the behaviour that you want, assuming you have the following
in /etc/resolv.conf:
	'domain foo.baz.quux'
add:
	'search foo.baz.quux baz.quux'

-- 
Luke Mewburn <luke.mewburn@itg.telstra.com.au>
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 card on the counter. "Eventually."
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