Hi Dan, On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 10:14:29PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: > I would like to drop the '.local' because it's an extra six characters > with absolutely no value. > > In principle, i think it should be possible to by just adding > search local > to my /etc/resolv.conf, but this absolutely does not work. (I imagine that > local is a really magic name in some contexts but not very magic in others.)
You may need to use "local." with a dot at the end. What doesn't work about it? ".local" TLD is kind of special so you may find problems anyway - it's used for multicast DNS (Avahi). You may be better off picking a different domain for your local network. > Furthermore, /etc/resolv.conf doesn't want to be written, as it > says it is generated automatically, so even if it worked, it wouldn't > be such a good solution. You can override the domain search list that your DHCP server provides by editing /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf and putting in either: supersede domain-name "local." or: prepend domain-name "local." or: append domain-name "local." Depending upon whether you want to have *only* your search domains, your search domains *first*, or your search domains *last*, respectively. See man dhclient.conf for more info. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
