This worked in Leopard, although since Snowie came along …

I have a Location setup with a DNS server to use [eg 10.0.0.17] , and a search string [eg sub.dom.ain.com]

In the terminal:

$ nslookup cake
Server 10.0.0.17
Address: 10.0.0.17#53

Name: cake.sub.dom.ain.com
Address: 10.0.0.38


So works like a charm. Although if I just the hostname cake in any other application within OSX - such as Safari/CoRD, they simply can't resolve the hostname. I have to instead use the FQDN cake.sub.dom.ain.com - why is this so? Why did this work in Leopard and is now broken?

Would love a solution.

Thanks