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From: swarrier@luc...
Subject: [9fans] Problems with dns
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:48:41 GMT

Hello
   I've installed plan 9 a week ago on a PC. I have just tried to
configure DNS on the machine. I've been having problems with it.
My /lib/ndb/local is as follows.

#
#
database=
    file=/lib/ndb/local
    file=/lib/ndb/common

ipnet=nexabit ip=10.0.100.0 ipmask=255.0.0.0
    ipsubmask=255.255.254.0
    dns=10.0.100.165
    dnsdomain=nexabit.com


This is all there is in the /lib/ndb/local file.
My machine gets its IP address via a DHCP server. When I try to ping a
machine on our network using only it's name e.g.

term% ping charlotte

I get the error
"ping: couldn't dial: cs: dns: no transalation found(icmp!charlotte!1)"

However when I ping using the fully qualified domain name e.g.

term% ping charlotte.nexabit.com

it works well.

It looks like the DNS resolver is not using the suffix to translate
names.

Could somebody point out what could be the problem here. I have not
edited any other file in the system except the 'local' file.

Thanks

S


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