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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!uninett.no!not-for-mail 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 Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5obde7$93a@verdi.nethelp.no> References: <5nv4bo$lob@netaxs.com> <5o46oi$e49@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5o69ia$jok@crcnis3.unl.edu> <5o722s$ja8@uriah.heep.sax.de> <33A8A2F2.7AAE@nas.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: dole.uninett.no In-reply-to: Hugh LaMaster's message of Wed, 18 Jun 1997 20:09:38 -0700 Cache-Post-Path: dole.uninett.no!unknown@verdi.nethelp.no Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43176 [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