[Info-vax] Telnet DNS Problem (OpenVMS 8.4, Itanium)

[serfsmith at gmail.com]

On Monday, February 15, 2016 at 6:04:22 PM UTC+2, Jerry Weiss wrote:
> On Monday, February 15, 2016 at 6:11:04 AM UTC-6, serf... at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > $ tcpip show name
> > 
> > BIND Resolver Parameters
> > 
> >  Local domain: alexforbes.co.za
> > 
> >  System
> > 
> >   State:     Started, Enabled
> > 
> >   Transport: UDP
> >   Domain:    acme.org
> >   Retry:     2
> >   Timeout:   5
> >   Servers:    dns.acme.org,
> >   Servers:    dns2.acme.org
> >   Path:       No values defined
> > 
> >
> 
> Why is there a comma after the first server name?  Is that just formatting added by utility or is it really in the name?  

I suspect just wrapping to the next line due to only 80 columns with the terminal that I'm using.

> 
> I was expecting it to report them all on one line.
>     Servers: dns.acme.org,dns2.acme.org
> 
> Have you tried the just added the IP addresses for the DNS servers directly instead of host names?

Nope, but then again I can confirm that the correct DNS servers *are* being queried by other services (PING, SSHD) - confirmed by, once again, doing a TCPDUMP port 53.