On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, stephen mulcahy wrote:
> domain blah.example.com
> search foo.example.com aaa.example.com
> nameserver 10.0.0.1
> nameserver 10.0.0.2
>> What I'm seeing in the nameserver query logs is lots of queries for things
> like
>> www.google.com.foo.example.com
> www.google.come.aaa.example.com
> www.google.com.blah.example.com
It looks like the resolver is cycling through to the various (sub)domains
listed in the search and domain lines in your /etc/resolv.conf.
man resolv.conf and read about ndots (the default is 1, so the example
above shouldn't happen unless the initial query failed).
-Ronan
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