You and I still aren't communicating.   What I mean by "same  exact
response" is this, for my box  "racecar" at  9.37.40.192  (these are the
exact responses).  When I use one of our routers with multiple cards I get
the same kind of response -  1 IP address maps to one and the same short
name and fully qualified name and no more.

nslookup racecar >

     Server:  ralns2-tr6.raleigh.ibm.com
     Address:  9.37.32.3

     Name:    racecar.raleigh.ibm.com
     Address:  9.37.40.192


nslookup racecar.raleigh.ibm.com >

     Server:  ralns2-tr6.raleigh.ibm.com
     Address:  9.37.32.3

     Name:    racecar.raleigh.ibm.com
     Address:  9.37.40.192


nslookup 9.37.40.192 >

     Server:  ralns2-tr6.raleigh.ibm.com
     Address:  9.37.32.3

     Name:    racecar.raleigh.ibm.com
     Address:  9.37.40.192



James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support



"David T. Smith" <dsmith AT TUCKERNET DOT COM> on 08/28/98 02:58:09 PM

Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on
      NetView et alia <NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU>

To:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU
cc:    (bcc: James Shanks)
Subject:  Re: NetView-T/EC-DNS Implementation Problem... HELP!





At 10:58 AM 8/26/98 -0400, you wrote:
>David -
>
>I don't even pretend to be a DNS expert,because I have no practical
>experience, only classroom.
>But I can tell you this, for any interface for which you have a hostname,
>you must get the exact same response to
>     nslookup <short_hostname>
>     nslookup <fully_qualified_hostname>
>     nslookup <IP_Address>
>every time you do it.
>
>James Shanks
>Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
>

When DNS responds to a name resolution request, it sends all the address
records.  However, they are not always in the same order.

When you say "exact same response" does that mean that the same list of
addresses needs to be returned (good), or that they need to be returned in
the same order (bad)?

DTS
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