named and unqualified host names

[Ken Spagnolo]

The other day I brought up BIND 4.8.3 on our 9815 (I want Hesiod,
so I need source).  This machine is to be a secondary master ns
for our domain.  The primary master is an Ultrix 4.0 box, which
has some fancy scripts for the automatic building of the files
named needs.  In this way, all of the hostnames and aliases in
our hosts file get loaded into the ns.  The vast majority of
these are unqualified, and the result is that I can refer to
a local machine with either its qualified or unqualified name on
the Ultrix box.  However, the Pyramid box cannot deal with
anything other than fully qualified names.  I thought this odd,
since its getting all its info from a machine that can do so.

This is the first secondary master I've configured, so I could
have something wrong (any tips appreciated).  However, I'd have
no problem if the Pyramid could be told to look in the hosts
file if an ns lookup failed, as can be done by Ultrix (though
not necessary to do so in my case).  The docs say one or the
other, based on the existance of /etc/nameserver.  Anyway
around this?

Thanx,
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Ken Spagnolo - Systems Programmer, Postmaster, Usenet Administrator, etc.
   Computer Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
K.Spagnolo at massey.ac.nz  Phone: +64-63-69099 x8587  New Zealand = GMT+12