From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HNuyQ-0003Bd-9t for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:58:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l24Hv6cr024964; Sun, 4 Mar 2007 17:57:06 GMT Received: from mail (c-24-245-14-14.hsd1.mn.comcast.net [24.245.14.14]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l24HquBB020350 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2007 17:52:56 GMT Received: from pascal.spore.ath.cx (pascal.spore.ath.cx [192.168.1.100]) by mail (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6B03670B for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2007 11:52:55 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 11:52:55 -0600 From: Dan Farrell To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A DNS question. Message-ID: <20070304115255.3bd61aee@pascal.spore.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20070303221647.GE1729@tarantula.kolej.mff.cuni.cz> References: <011c01c75dc8$a3c0ea80$08200a0a@PowerMoneySex.Lan> <20070303210459.GD1729@tarantula.kolej.mff.cuni.cz> <20070303152152.6020224e@pascal.spore.ath.cx> <20070303221647.GE1729@tarantula.kolej.mff.cuni.cz> Organization: Spore, Ltd. X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.4.0 (GTK+ 2.10.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d024da19-ba40-4d20-b929-6faa61e3039f X-Archives-Hash: fcfc537444a8c2260105e1e891aaee1c On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 23:16:47 +0100 "Michal 'vorner' Vaner" wrote: > The [ X ] is a machine, ---- is a network and those C? are names of > the machine on the net. Now, ping C1 on the middle machine. Should it > ping itself on the right interface or look for the left computer? You > should at last have something like: > > [ Name1 ] C1 ---- C2 [ Name2 ] C1 ---- C2 [ Name3 ] /etc/resolv.conf has a search line in which you can set up domains to automatically append to hostnames that aren't fully qualified. If the subnets had different subdomain names, the order/presence/absence in resolv.conf would determin which C? was reached from Name2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list