On 9/15/14 7:04 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
While the final dot has been required within zone files to prevent unwanted appendages to records it has NOT been required by tools such as host and nslookup on either Windows or Linux/UNIX which routinely use "search" domains.
On Windows the behavior you're seeing has been the default for a long time. (I spend a lot of time looking at BIND query logs helping customers to debug wacky holes they've dug for themselves with Windows search strings.)
Further, Windows has a "feature" usually referred to as "domain search devolution" which means that if you have a domain name option (NOT a search string) such as foo.example.com and <query>.foo.example.com doesn't return an answer, it will also try for <query>.example.com and <query>.com.
So short names are awesome ... except where they're not. :) And even more awesome in the Windows world when you have applications that can ONLY work with short names, you can't even type a FQDN into the config.
hth, Doug _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
