AIX name resolution bug

[Charles Derykus]

RRH at vm.nrc.ca writes:

> Hello Netters,
> Our AIX user has run into another question/problem. On our SUNs &
> SGIs  the command ping vm works. The host vm has a fully qualified name
> of  vm.nrc.ca . The AIX, SUN and SGI are in the di.nrc.ca domain.
> However  the ping vm fails and ping vm. or ping vm.nrc.ca   The
> /etc/resolv.conf has domain di.nrc.ca.  Is there any way to tell   the
> AIX machine  to behave like the others or are we stuck with it?

and the response:

>> In a word, yes.  The behavior you report is standard for AIX...
>>

The "standard" behavior of AIX is not RFC compliant. RFC 1034 specifies 
the search algorithm to look "rootward". If the host can not be found
in the current domain, i.e., if "vm.di.nrc.ca" can't be found, then 
"vm.nrc.ca" should be tried, etc. IBM has indicated that this will be
fixed in a future release (DIR 4X885).


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