Solved: glibc upgrade broke my dns resolution

[jamesrt]

The recent glibc 2.3.4-20041102 ebuild has broken dns lookups on my machine, and I was wondering if anyone knows of a workaround.

Rightly or wrongly (and I know it's really 'wrongly'), my employer has an internal DNS system which has it's own root (or "." domain), and a large number of names are entered into it.

With glibc 2.3.4.20040808, I could still resolve names from the "." domain, i.e. "ping machine" would find "machine."; but now with glibc 2.3.4.20041102 installed, this no longer works. Nothing else has changed with respect to DNS servers, nsswitch.conf, resolv.conf, or anything. Reverting back to glibc 2.3.4.20040808 makes it all work again.

On our Vendor's unix servers, we can specify "." in the resolv.conf file in the search order, and it works OK; but this doesn't work on my gentoo PC either.

Does anyone know of a magical trick I can do to get machines in our internal "." to resolve correctly??

Thanks!

[jamesrt]

The solution:

Add the following to /etc/resolv.conf

option ndots:0

Thanks to SpanKY for pointing that one out....