RE: [squid-users] DNS cache-only server question

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Piesk [mailto:apiesk@virbus.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 12:26 AM
> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: RE: [squid-users] DNS cache-only server question
>
>
> > From: Pablo Sanchez [mailto:pablo@purecarbon.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 5:15 AM
> > To: Henrik Nordstrom
> > Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> > Subject: RE: [squid-users] DNS cache-only server question
> >
> <snip>
> >
> > Perhaps I'm not understanding you correctly, I apologize.
> But here's
> > what I do on my Linux box:
> >
> > pablo-1003.chaussy-[pablo]: ping -c 1 qa-one.foobar.com
> > Warning: no SO_TIMESTAMP support, falling back to SIOCGSTAMP
> > PING qa-one.foobar.com (XXX.YYY.ZZZ.YYY) from 10.0.0.2 :
> 56(84) bytes
> > of data.
> > 64 bytes from qa-one.foobar.com (XXX.YYY.ZZZ.YYY):
> icmp_seq=0 ttl=242
> > time=1.198 sec
> >
>
> as henrik wrote, try the ping with an dot appended to the fqdn.
>
> ping -c 1 qa-one.foobar.com.
>
> if you leave out the dot, it's possible that your search
> domain will be
> appended to resolve the name.

pablo-1002.chaussy-[pablo]: ping -c 1 qa-one.foobar.com.
ping: unknown host qa-one.foobar.com.

Okay, gotta try what Colin suggested ...

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