wget not resolving domain names

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sat Nov 5 12:45:10 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 12:55 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> myname   IN   CNAME  yourname.yourdomain.com.
> (and by the way, the CNAMEs above are incorrect - they should use
> the full domain name with a trailing dot as the target even when
> in the same domain - if the bare names work it is an accident due
> to the clients adding a default during lookup.)

A CNAME would need to be a FQDN as given to the client.  It wouldn't
matter if your DNS server could accept records written one way or the
other, internally, so long as passes the right information along to
whatever asks for it.

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