Re: DNS lookup problems (for shortened names)

ralph_b@oldham.gpsemi.com writes:

>Hi,
>
>I'm pretty new to Squid, but really like what I see (congrats to all who
>are involved in it's development).
>
>I do have a problem with the dnsserver. It only occurs when I look up
>shortened names, for example:
>
>Let's assume my domain is foo.com, subdivided into uk.foo.com and us.foo.com.
>There's a machine called www.us.foo.com and another called www.uk.foo.com.
>
>If I go for the URL http://www.uk.foo.com/ - no problems. However, if I
>go for http://www.uk/ it fails (with a DNS failure). However, the Squid
>machine *can* nslookup "www.uk" successfully. If it's relevant, nslookup
>reports it's search order to be "uk.foo.com foo.com".
>
>After a bit of DNS debugging, I've found that nslookup asks for
>www.uk.uk.foo.com and then www.uk.foo.com, whereas dnsserver just asks for
>www.uk.
>
>Question is: Is this my DNS's problem, or is dnsserver not doing it's job
>quite as it should? If it's dnsserver, what can I do about it?
>
>Please help! Thanks in advance!

Enter 'dns_defnames on' in your configuration file.

Duane W.
Received on Thu Apr 10 1997 - 21:05:54 MDT