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From: sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: resolv.conf/named Question
Date: 19 Jun 1997 13:49:59 GMT
Organization: Nethelp Consulting, Trondheim, Norway
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[Hugh LaMaster]

|   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.

The resolver should *not* add "B.A" by default in this situation.
See RFC 1535 if you want to know why. In short, it's a security
issue.

|   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.

And that's how it *should* be done.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no