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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: resolv.conf/named Question
Date: 16 Jun 1997 20:13:06 GMT
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heller@socko.cdnow.com (A. Karl Heller) wrote:

>  If I'm running named, should I have a resolv.conf file?

Recommended, but not required.  Things will work without it, since the
default is to use the local nameserver if no resolv.conf does exist.
You're losing the NFQDN resolution however (which only works by
specifying either `domain' or `search' in resolv.conf).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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