Strange (dns ?) behavior

[stan]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 03:49:51PM -0500, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> 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)
> 
I do. 4 of them in fact. What did you find?

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