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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>So, create my local domain (something.lan) and put all my entries in that then configure the clients to use something.lan as the default search domain?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>From:</b> Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 29, 2023 4:24 PM<br><b>To:</b> All about using and deploying powerdns <pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com><br><b>Cc:</b> tim@garayfam.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Pdns-users] Short Name Resolution<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>On 29/11/2023 20:27, Tim Garay via Pdns-users wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'>How can I setup PDNS to resolve short names?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'>I would like to be able to resolve something like “testserver” to 192.168.1.1. No domain.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p style='margin-left:.5in'>Generally this is the job of the stub resolver on the client, to expand "testserver" to "testserver.some.domain", by configuring it to retry queries which fail by adding "some.domain" to them.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'>Most clients will honour a DHCP parameter for the search domain. For example, a Linux client may put the setting "search some.domain" in /etc/resolv.conf<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>