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Your confusion about the "host oboe" is because your resolver first
tries oboe.machturtle.com then it tries oboe.corbin.machturtle.com and
finds a match and returns the address. (do a host -a oboe and see for
yourself)


On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 06:21, David Corbin wrote:

> I don't understand this behavior :  As you can see below, I can resolve "oboe" 
> using 'host'. I can ping it if I give it a fully qualified domain name.  
> However, ping says "oboe" is an unknown host.  In what *may* be a related 
> problem, when I ssh to this machine, there is an unusual delay before I 
> connected/authenticatec - about 10 seconds more than for other local systems.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> [dcorbin at matrix /var/log] host oboe
> oboe.corbin.machturtle.com has address 192.168.26.150
> [dcorbin at matrix /var/log] ping oboe.corbin.machturtle.com
> PING oboe.corbin.machturtle.com (192.168.26.150): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 192.168.26.150: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.5 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.26.150: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.5 ms
> 
> --- oboe.corbin.machturtle.com ping statistics ---
> 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max = 0.5/0.5/0.5 ms
> [dcorbin at matrix /var/log] ping oboe
> ping: unknown host oboe
> [dcorbin at matrix /var/log] cat /etc/resolv.conf
> nameserver 192.168.26.150
> domain machturtle.com corbin.machturtle.com
> [dcorbin at matrix /var/log]
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