Strange (dns ?) behavior

[Hal Burgiss]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:19 PM, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:

> I have a machine that is exhibitig most strnage behavior, as shown here:
>
> amanda at amanda:~$ ping pm2fw
> PING pm2fw.mcn.chs (10.209.137.24) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from pm2fw.mcn.chs (10.209.137.24): icmp_seq=1 ttl=62 time=1.12 ms
> 64 bytes from pm2fw.mcn.chs.mcn.chs (10.209.137.24): icmp_seq=2 ttl=62
> time=0.663 ms
> 64 bytes from pm2fw.mcn.chs (10.209.137.24): icmp_seq=3 ttl=62 time=0.471
> ms
> 64 bytes from pm2fw.mcn.chs.mcn.chs (10.209.137.24): icmp_seq=4 ttl=62
> time=0.973 ms
>
> I discoverd this when a package that tunels over ssh did not work till I
> tried it using the IP address, rather than the name.
>
>
Do you have multiple search domains in resolv.conf by any chance? If not
sure, take a peak.  (I ran into something recently that caused some similar
symptoms, at least with ping output)


-- 
Hal
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