On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:40:29AM -0400, C.T. Paterson wrote: > search companysys.local > nameserver 192.168.0.8 > nameserver 192.168.0.3 Try commenting out one of those two 'nameserver' lines and redoing your tests -- all of them: nslookup (plain), ping (plain), nslookup (fully-qualified), ping (fully-qualified). Then uncomment that one, comment out the other, and try them again. I don't know precisely how Linux combines 'search' and 'nameserver', but the symptoms you gave seem very weird. My only possible explanation to offer is that perhaps the servers are giving inconsistent results, and Linux is behaving inconsistently with regards to search-vs.-qualified and/or ping-vs.-nslookup.
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