On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 08:01 +0900, Jim Freeze wrote:
> BTW, host failed, but dig seems to work:

No, this dig output shows that there is no answers to your query. So the
look up failed.

> 
> % dig 'jim-freezes-powerbook-g4-15.local'
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> jim-freezes-powerbook-g4-15.local
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 50543
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> 
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;jim-freezes-powerbook-g4-15.local. IN  A

This is your question/query.

No ANSWER SECTION.

HTH,
Guillaume.

> 
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> .                       539     IN      SOA     frootb.mycompany.net.
> dnssupport.mycompany.com. 2004059055 14400 3600 604800 600
> 
> ;; Query time: 66 msec
> ;; SERVER: 10.208.0.3#53(10.208.0.3)
> ;; WHEN: Thu Nov 10 17:00:07 2005
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 130



> --
> Jim Freeze
>