[CentOS] name resolution question

Joe Greenseid wrote:
> Quoting Kai Schaetzl <maillists at conactive.com>:
>
>> 1. nslookup is deprecated, use host
>> 2. it interprets any hostname with a dot in it like an FQDN, e.g. it
>> transforms abc.def -> abc.def.
>>
>
> Host returns the same results.
>
> So there is no way to do name completion on any partial name that has 
> a dot in it?
>

and then how would it know that it should complete some names but not 
google.com, ... etc?

do not rely on completion. use complete names whenever you can. 
otherwise, use '-' instead of a dot in your local hostnames.