Then, like other people mentioned, your zone files are setup in some weird 
way (: Least different from ours. Maybe try using the other person's 
example as a template?

On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, James wrote:

> I have both the search and domain defined in my /etc/resolv.conf file.
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote:
>> Do you have a search domain in resolv.conf?
>>
>> On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, James wrote:
>>
>>> I'm hoping this will be simple, I ran into this issue before but don't
>>> remember what I did to resolve it.
>>>
>>> I'm setting up a DNS in my house, it almost works. Nslookup returns
>>> the correct values but when I try to ssh to a system I have to add a
>>> period to the end of the system name for ssh to work.
>>>
>>> here is some of the information from named.conf
>>>
>>> options {
>>>        directory "/var/named";
>>>        dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
>>>        statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
>>>        /*
>>>         * If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
>>>         * to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
>>>         * directive below.  Previous versions of BIND always asked
>>>         * questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
>>>         * port by default.
>>>         */
>>>         // query-source address * port 53;
>>> };
>>>
>>>
>>> zone "43p." IN {
>>>        type master;
>>>        file "43p_0.db";
>>> };
>>> zone "router." IN {
>>>        type master;
>>>        file "router_0.db";
>>> };
>>> zone "41t." IN {
>>>        type master;
>>>        file "41t_0.db";
>>> };
>>>
>>>
>>> Here is an example of the zone files
>>>
>>> $TTL 1H
>>> @       SOA     43p.home.local.     root.dell.home.local. (      2
>>>                                                3H
>>>                                                1H
>>>                                                1W
>>>                                                1H )
>>>        NS      43p.home.local.
>>>        A       192.168.1.50
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>> -Yaron
>>
>> --
>>
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>


-Yaron

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