strange resolver behavour

[Doug Barton]

On 10/13/2010 12:05 AM, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> On 13.10.2010 01:39, Doug Barton wrote:
>
>>> I care about my resolver behavior.
>>
>> Ok, well, that's working as advertised, so no problems then.
>
> That's fine. And how about host(1)?
> It looks for MX record for synthetic domain names
> using suffixes from /etc/resolv.conf

You said you wanted something that exercised the resolver, make up your 
mind. :)

> Hopefully it does not find but what if such names would exist
> and have MX records? host(1) would lie to me.

No, it would act the way it's supposed to. If there is an answer that 
you should get, it will give it to you. If you want to debug something 
that isn't working the way you think it should, use dig.


Doug

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