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Subject: Bug#116096: dnrd: does not resolve short hostnames
Reply-To: Eduard Bloch <edi@...>, 116096@...
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 00:30:40 +0200
From: Eduard Bloch <edi@...>
To: Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@...>
Cc: 116096@...
Sender: Eduard Bloch <inet@...>

#include <hallo.h>
Thomas Schoepf wrote on Sun Oct 21, 2001 um 12:11:33AM:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 03:13:47PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> > since dnrd is intended to be a master server for small LANs, I expect it too
> > resolve short hostnames without FQDN. Unfortunately, it does not. I
> > tried to add the host entries in the form:
> > IP HOSTNAME FQDN
> > or
> > IP FQDN HOSTNAME
> > but it does not work.
>
> Hm, how does your configuration look like? dnrd does resolve short
> hostnames here on my system:

Yes, on _your_ system. It works fine on my local machine too, but try
the same from a machine in the LAN.

> asterix:~$ host asterix
> asterix.gallien A 192.168.100.1

Similar here. hostname.domain is returned correctly. But not when
resolving from another machine.

> This is my configuration:
>
> asterix:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
> domain gallien
> search gallien informatik.tu-muenchen.de debian.org
> nameserver 127.0.0.1

Similar here.

> asterix:~$ cat /etc/hosts | grep asterix
> 192.168.100.1 asterix.gallien asterix
> asterix:~$

Dito. I tried "hostname FQDN" and "FQDN hostname", both did not help.

Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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