Re: why one shouldn't use relative hostnames

2010-11-12 Thread Maria Iano
Thank you both and Kevin I for one would really appreciate if you would compose that web page and put it out there! On Nov 11, 2010, at 8:40 AM, Stacey Jonathan Marshall wrote: Additionally a wildcard record in one of the the searched domains would cause a false positive to be returned

Re: why one shouldn't use relative hostnames

2010-11-11 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Maria Iano bind-li...@iano.org: We are working with a software vendor whose software only works with relative hostnames - they say it can't cope with a fully-qualified domain name. They want us to make sure the necessary domain is in all clients' search lists. Does anyone have

Re: why one shouldn't use relative hostnames

2010-11-11 Thread Stacey Jonathan Marshall
Additionally a wildcard record in one of the the searched domains would cause a false positive to be returned causing an outage to the service/services. And if your not in control of the zone or the search order it could be difficult to rectify. -Stacey On 11/11/2010 00:30, Kevin Darcy

why one shouldn't use relative hostnames

2010-11-10 Thread Maria Iano
We are working with a software vendor whose software only works with relative hostnames - they say it can't cope with a fully-qualified domain name. They want us to make sure the necessary domain is in all clients' search lists. Does anyone have any good references for me to explanations of why

Re: why one shouldn't use relative hostnames

2010-11-10 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 11/10/2010 1:19 PM, Maria Iano wrote: We are working with a software vendor whose software only works with relative hostnames - they say it can't cope with a fully-qualified domain name. They want us to make sure the necessary domain is in all clients' search lists. Does anyone have any