RE: [squid-users] DNS cache-only server question

> From: Pablo Sanchez [mailto:pablo@purecarbon.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 5:15 AM
> To: Henrik Nordstrom
> Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: RE: [squid-users] DNS cache-only server question
>
<snip>
>
> Perhaps I'm not understanding you correctly, I apologize. But here's
> what I do on my Linux box:
>
> pablo-1003.chaussy-[pablo]: ping -c 1 qa-one.foobar.com
> Warning: no SO_TIMESTAMP support, falling back to SIOCGSTAMP
> PING qa-one.foobar.com (XXX.YYY.ZZZ.YYY) from 10.0.0.2 : 56(84) bytes
> of data.
> 64 bytes from qa-one.foobar.com (XXX.YYY.ZZZ.YYY): icmp_seq=0 ttl=242
> time=1.198 sec
>

as henrik wrote, try the ping with an dot appended to the fqdn.

        ping -c 1 qa-one.foobar.com.

if you leave out the dot, it's possible that your search domain will be
appended to resolve the name.

ciao -ap

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Received on Tue Sep 18 2001 - 00:25:34 MDT