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.