In message <21906507.2046.1410990673107.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>, Ja y Ashworth writes:
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From: "Mark Andrews" <marka@isc.org>
Search lists are for hosts and host like things. Resolver libraries have different interfaces for different purposes. Single label hostnames for reaching non local equipment was deliberately phase out in the 1980's as it was clearly a bad concept.
Yes, and we're discussing the practical reason *why* it's a bad concept.
:-)
My abject apologies to everyone who didn't get that I was talking about the *source* of the problem by synecdoche.
The source of the problem is bad search list handling. It wouldn't matter what records are there if the search list handling was correct. -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka@isc.org