Change in behaviour regarding ndots and searchlist

2014-09-15 Thread Sebastian Wiesinger
Hello, I noticed a change in the host tool in regard to how searches are done when there are = ndots dots in the query. In the following case ndots is always nonexistant in the configuration. With bind 9.8 (Debian 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1): $ host -d test.example Trying test.example Received 105 bytes

Re: Change in behaviour regarding ndots and searchlist

2014-09-15 Thread Mark Andrews
Partially qualified names are DANGEROUS. You realy do not want to use them ever no matter how convient or useful they appear to be. In message 20140915083532.ga29...@danton.fire-world.de, Sebastian Wiesinger w rites: Hello, I noticed a change in the host tool in regard to how searches are

RE: Change in behaviour regarding ndots and searchlist

2014-09-15 Thread Lightner, Jeff
AM To: BIND Users Subject: Re: Change in behaviour regarding ndots and searchlist Partially qualified names are DANGEROUS. You realy do not want to use them ever no matter how convient or useful they appear to be. In message 20140915083532.ga29...@danton.fire-world.de, Sebastian Wiesinger w

Re: Change in behaviour regarding ndots and searchlist

2014-09-15 Thread Steven Carr
On 15 September 2014 13:29, Lightner, Jeff jlight...@dsservices.com wrote: I've begun seeing this recently in nslookup on Windows workstations as well. It appears it is appending search domains even when I've specified an FQDN. That is I have two search domains such as ex1.com and

Re: Change in behaviour regarding ndots and searchlist

2014-09-15 Thread Barry Margolin
In article mailman.957.1410786839.26362.bind-us...@lists.isc.org, Steven Carr sjc...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 September 2014 13:29, Lightner, Jeff jlight...@dsservices.com wrote: I've begun seeing this recently in nslookup on Windows workstations as well.It appears it is appending search

Re: Change in behaviour regarding ndots and searchlist

2014-09-15 Thread Sebastian Wiesinger
* Barry Margolin bar...@alum.mit.edu [2014-09-15 15:18]: In article mailman.957.1410786839.26362.bind-us...@lists.isc.org, Steven Carr sjc...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 September 2014 13:29, Lightner, Jeff jlight...@dsservices.com wrote: I've begun seeing this recently in nslookup on Windows

RE: Change in behaviour regarding ndots and searchlist

2014-09-15 Thread Lightner, Jeff
. -Original Message- From: bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Sebastian Wiesinger Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 9:50 AM To: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: Change in behaviour regarding ndots and searchlist * Barry Margolin bar

Re: Change in behaviour regarding ndots and searchlist

2014-09-15 Thread Sam Wilson
In article mailman.957.1410786839.26362.bind-us...@lists.isc.org, Steven Carr sjc...@gmail.com wrote: Without the final explicit . your name is not fully qualified. Except in an email address where a trailing . is illegal. Sam -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered

Re: Change in behaviour regarding ndots and searchlist

2014-09-15 Thread Doug Barton
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