ssh / bind help?

[Russell Miller]

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Adding the trailing dot, for names, prevents the value of the 'search' 
> field in /etc/resolve.com from being used. So
>   host fubar.bazfaz.net
> could resolve to fubar.bazfaz.net.your.domain, if your DNS has a 
> wildcard MX record (like *.your.domain) would return a pointer to the 
> mail server for any address in your domain. If you add a trailing dot 
> that doesn't happen.
>
> The value on an IP reverse lookup is unknown to me, there may be none.
>
I'm not entirely sure, but I think that trailing dot will cause it to 
treat it as a forward and not a reverse lookup.  Remember reverse 
lookups get translated to 4oc.3oc.2oc.1oc.in-addr.arpa.

--Russell