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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: resolv.conf question Date: 3 Jan 1996 22:07:04 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4ceum8$kpg@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4caval$sr0@gol2.gol.com> <4ccajp$19d@chinx4.thoughtport.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Chad Attermann <chada@censoft.com> writes: > For example, with a line in /etc/resolv.conf like > > domain this.net that.net > > Then nslookup would with a query of 'host' would first search for > 'host.this.net' and then 'host.that.net', and lastly just 'host' Nope, this clause is called `search', not `domain'. domain and search clauses are mutually exclusive; the last one that is found in the file ``wins''. Thus, it's entirely possible to have a resolv.conf like: nameserver 1.2.3.4 nameserver 2.3.4.5 domain foo.bar.com search foo.bar.com mumble.bar.com wizzle.org where the `domain' solely serves a ``comment'' purpose. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)