On May 8 2013, John Williams wrote:
my resolv.conf looks like....
nameserver 10.10.10.10
nameserver 10.10.10.20
search path1.mydomain.com path2.mydomain.com
I would expect if I type the following:
dig myhost
It would search for that host in path1 or path2 listed above. It does not,
a +trace shows the resolver querying the root servers for myhost.
So it appears the search command does not work in environment.
[root@server1 # dig myhost +trace
; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.el6_3.2 <<>> myhost +trace
;; global options: +cmd
. 98386 IN NS k.root-servers.net.
. 98386 IN NS m.root-servers.net.
. 98386 IN NS b.root-servers.net.
. 98386 IN NS i.root-servers.net.
. 98386 IN NS e.root-servers.net.
. 98386 IN NS f.root-servers.net.
. 98386 IN NS a.root-servers.net.
. 98386 IN NS d.root-servers.net.
. 98386 IN NS j.root-servers.net.
. 98386 IN NS c.root-servers.net.
. 98386 IN NS g.root-servers.net.
. 98386 IN NS l.root-servers.net.
. 98386 IN NS h.root-servers.net.
;; Received 512 bytes from 10.176.156.20#53(10.16.16.20) in 9 ms
[Presumably 10.16.16.20 is in your resolv.conf, rather than what you
said above.]
^C[root@server1]# vi /etc/resolv.conf ^C
Any idea why? Thanks in advance...
You are (probably) under two misapprehensions. First, dig does not use
the search path by default - you have to use the +search option for that.
See the man page.
Secondly, +trace always goes to the root nameservers and works its way
down from there. That's what it is intended for - it's not some sort
of debugging option as you seem to think. The only thing it uses the
nameservers specified in resolv.conf, or by an @ option, for is to look
up the nameservers for "." to get it started.
It isn't actually useful to combine +trace and +search - dig could start
all over again with the search path(s) added after a "negative" result,
but it doesn't.
--
Chris Thompson
Email: c...@cam.ac.uk
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