CentOS - Jul 2007 - Simple Question about Resolving Names without suffix with bind

Hi

I am trying to use Bind as named. And I have successfully set up a chrooted
bind.

Anyway, I cannot have it resolve "www" directly.

For example, when I am using nslookup, when enter www.example.com, it will
resolve. But when enter www, it will not.
I want to have www resolve to www.example.com, what should I do? I have
already set $ORIGIN in the zone file, but it does not work.

Thanks.
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On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 12:58:03PM +0800, Wei Yu
alleged:
> Hi
> 
> I am trying to use Bind as named. And I have successfully set up a chrooted
> bind.
> 
> Anyway, I cannot have it resolve "www" directly.
> 
> For example, when I am using nslookup, when enter www.example.com, it will
> resolve. But when enter www, it will not.
> I want to have www resolve to www.example.com, what should I do? I have
> already set $ORIGIN in the zone file, but it does not work.
That is something you set in your own client resolver libraries.  Put
"search example.com" into /etc/resolv.conf.

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On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 12:58 +0800, Wei Yu wrote:
> Hi
>  
> I am trying to use Bind as named. And I have successfully set up a
> chrooted bind.
>  
> Anyway, I cannot have it resolve "www" directly.
>  
> For example, when I am using nslookup, when enter www.example.com, it
> will resolve. But when enter www, it will not.
> I want to have www resolve to www.example.com, what should I do? I
> have already set $ORIGIN in the zone file, but it does not work.
>  
> Thanks.
If you have created a zone file for example.com
in /var/named/chroot/var/named/example.zone

All you need to do is to add the entry below to your zone file
www     A       ###.###.###.###

This is what I did anyway, and it is working great!!

Greg