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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newshub2.home.com!newshub1.home.com!news.home.com!nick.arc.nasa.gov!cnn.nas.nasa.gov!not-for-mail From: Hugh LaMaster <lamaster@nas.nasa.gov> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: resolv.conf/named Question Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 20:09:38 -0700 Organization: NASA Ames Research Center Lines: 37 Message-ID: <33A8A2F2.7AAE@nas.nasa.gov> References: <5nv4bo$lob@netaxs.com> <5o46oi$e49@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5o69ia$jok@crcnis3.unl.edu> <5o722s$ja8@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: win144.nas.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; U; IRIX 6.2 IP22) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43137 J Wunsch wrote: > rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) wrote: > > > > You're losing the NFQDN resolution however (which only works by > > > specifying either `domain' or `search' in resolv.conf). > > > > "Normally, the default domain is determined from the host's hostname: the > > default domain is everthing after the first '.' in the name" > > You're right. See also: resolver(5). I haven't read the sources yet, but, by observation, "domain" doesn't seem to work properly on 2.2.1 [I routinely run without named on my desktop workstations, so I notice these things ;-) ]. If you have a 3-level name such as C.B.A or D.B.A, you can't say x.C or y.D or whatever. However, it is a trivial exercise to use the "search" keyword in resolv.conf to do the same thing, so this isn't a big deal. FWIW, if you have local nameservers on your network already, desktop workstations (as opposed to "servers") can save a process (and the memory it tends to consume) by not running named. Unless you are running a network server of some kind, you generally don't generate many names per second to resolve, and even a modest system can be the domain nameserver for a lot of desktop workstations without problems. [If your desktop boxes have lots of memory, then forget it.] -- Hugh LaMaster, M/S 258-5, ASCII Email: hlamaster@mail.arc.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Or: lamaster@nas.nasa.gov Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 No Junkmail: USC 18 section 2701 Phone: 415/604-1056 Disclaimer: Unofficial, personal *opinion*.