Host search path in subdomain?

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From: Flemming Lau
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 17:30

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And now for one more question which I shuld't be asking:

We are currently working on getting the nameserver to run in our organisation.
And we have run into the following puzzling question:

Why does sendmail not like all other nice net-utilities use the res_search()
routine to resolve a not fully qualified name?

Example: 

	Our domain is dde.dk
	We have a subdomain bqa.dde.dk
	There is a host Kurt in the dde.dk domain
	I can ping the name Kurt on a host in the bqa.dde.dk subdomain
	I can NOT mail a user on Kurt from the same host. 

Sendmail.cf files insist on as they cannot find a CNAME for Kurt to 
define it as Kurt.bqa.dde.dk which does not exist. Whereas ping etc.
will try Kurt.bqa.dde.dk, Kurt.dde.dk etc. and succeed. 

Why is this and what do I do about it?


Thanks for any help!

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!dde!fll
From: fll@dde.dk (Flemming Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Host search path in subdomain?
Message-ID: <1993Jan6.173047.16456@dde.dk>
Date: 6 Jan 93 17:30:47 GMT
Organization: Dansk Data Elektronik A/S
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