Using short hostnames with dig (was: Re: Problems getting bind working on F11)

[Todd Zullinger]

Tim wrote:
> I've never gotten dig to work with short hostnames, it seems to work
> at a lower level than other things which will add on the domain
> names you put in the search parameter in /etc/resolv.conf.

By default, dig doesn't use the search list from /etc/resolv.conf.
But you can use the +search option from the command line or in
~/.digrc to enable this behavior.

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