[cobalt-developers] Name resolving issue

["Ian McCall" <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello.

I'm having a problem with names resolving incorrectly. The situation:
Suppose I am mymachine.isp.com. Now I do an nslookup on a domain that
doesn't exist (say, red.herring.com). Instead of telling me the machine
doesn't exist, I'm getting an answer back of red.herring.com.isp.com. In
other words, my domain is being appended to the full name of the invalid
domain and then returned as a vaid result.

This came to light after I noticed mails to someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx were
coming back with a 'domain loops back to myself' error and an address given
of someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

My /etc/resolv.conf has a single line: search isp.com, then two valid
nameserver addresses. The problem does not occur on other machines in the
isp.com domain, so it's something specific to my configuration.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to where to start? Should I perhaps
replace the search: isp.com line with domain: isp.com? All help appreciated.


Thanks,
Ian