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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!128.230.129.106!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsrelay.courtave.net!news.inetnebr.com!crcnews.unl.edu!manager From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: resolv.conf/named Question Date: 17 Jun 1997 15:13:14 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5o69ia$jok@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5o46oi$e49@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sting.unl.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43044 In article <5o46oi$e49@uriah.heep.sax.de> j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: > You're losing the NFQDN resolution however (which only works by > specifying either `domain' or `search' in resolv.conf). This is not correct, at least, as specified in my "DNS and BIND" O'Reilly book: "Normally, the default domain is determined from the host's hostname: the default domain is everthing after the first '.' in the name" .. "You can also set the default domain with the 'domain' directive in resolv.conf" Good day. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln