Yes, it works. The DNS search suffix matters. Thank you all! On 7/8/07, Steven Haigh <netwiz at crc.id.au> wrote: > > On 08/07/2007, at 1:24 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > > On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 12:58 +0800, Wei Yu wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> I am trying to use Bind as named. And I have successfully set up a > >> chrooted bind. > >> > >> Anyway, I cannot have it resolve "www" directly. > >> > >> For example, when I am using nslookup, when enter www.example.com, it > >> will resolve. But when enter www, it will not. > >> I want to have www resolve to www.example.com, what should I do? I > >> have already set $ORIGIN in the zone file, but it does not work. > >> > >> Thanks. > > > > If you have created a zone file for example.com > > in /var/named/chroot/var/named/example.zone > > > > All you need to do is to add the entry below to your zone file > > www A ###.###.###.### > > > > This is what I did anyway, and it is working great!! > > Not quite.... This will only add a www record to your domain... What > I think the original poster wants is to use the DNS Seach suffix > functions of DHCP. > > This will add the prefix automatically when the host tries to search > for a DNS entry... > > $ cat /etc/resolv.conf > search example.com > nameserver x.x.x.x > nameserver x.x.x.x > > This will get you the desired results. You set it in your dhcpd.conf > file as so: > > option domain-name "example.com"; > > -- > Steven Haigh > > Email: netwiz at crc.id.au > Web: http://www.crc.id.au > Phone: (03) 9017 0597 - 0404 087 474 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Zijing 15# 1404B Tsinghua Univ. +86 -10 -51537235 Zig -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070709/19d0ea75/attachment-0005.html>