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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!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!thoughtport!usenet From: Chad Attermann <chada@censoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: resolv.conf question Date: 2 Jan 1996 22:12:09 GMT Organization: Century Software, Inc. Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4ccajp$19d@chinx4.thoughtport.COM> References: <4caval$sr0@gol2.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.185.69.131 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4c) To: doug@gol.com X-URL: news:4caval$sr0@gol2.gol.com The /etc/resolv.conf is a local configuration file for resolving host names on your local machine. It has nothing to do with what networks your DNS is serving. The domains listed in /etc/resolv.conf are merely domains to be appended to host nslookup's. 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' Chad Attermann