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Re: Underscores in host names
From: "MARLON BORBA" <mborba () trf3 gov br>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 12:01:54 -0300
Hmm, they've always teached to me that . (dot) at the end of hostnames indicates the (hidden) Root domain: blah.domain.com.[Root] And my teachers always said that we don't need to write the final . because every domain belongs to the Root domain. As for DNS servers for the Root domain, they are the reason for putting that "hint" files into our /var/named directory, "non"? Regards, Marlon Borba, CISSP Abraços, Marlon Borba, CISSP. "Por que 100? Bastaria um se eu estivesse errado!" --Albert Einstein, sobre o livro dos nazistas "100 cientistas contra Einstein".
"Peter & Karin Dambier" <peter () peter-dambier de> 05/19/05 9:00 AM >>>
[...] Because programmes like check_soa from the O'Reilly book "DNS and BIND" or sendmail believe it makes sense to force a dot at the end of every name they look up. There are nameservers in the root zone file that DNS will not find. /etc/hosts is the only way to get them. Dont forget to have both names with and without dot.
Current thread:
- Re: Underscores in host names, (continued)
- Re: Underscores in host names Laurent Frigault (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Paul Vixie (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names bmanning (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Eric A. Hall (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Brad Knowles (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Michael . Dillon (May 19)
- Re: Underscores in host names Paul Vixie (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Eric A. Hall (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Valdis . Kletnieks (May 19)
- Re: Underscores in host names Edward Lewis (May 19)
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- Re: Underscores in host names Jay R. Ashworth (May 19)
- Re: Underscores in host names Valdis . Kletnieks (May 19)
- Re: Underscores in host names Roger Marquis (May 19)
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- Re: Underscores in host names Jay R. Ashworth (May 19)
- Re: Underscores in host names Edward Lewis (May 19)
- Re: Underscores in host names Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine (May 19)
- Re: Underscores in host names Michael . Dillon (May 20)
- Re: Underscores in host names alex (May 20)