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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: resolv.conf/named Question Date: 17 Jun 1997 22:11:40 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5o722s$ja8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5nv4bo$lob@netaxs.com> <5o46oi$e49@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5o69ia$jok@crcnis3.unl.edu> 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 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43083 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). -- 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. ;-)