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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >> >> >> -Yaron >> >> -- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > -Yaron --