On Tuesday 26 September 2017 14:59:41 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 01:42:39PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On this topic, I still can't understand the contents of your > > immutable /etc/resolv.conf file, even without the comma: > > > > nameserver 192.168.XX.1 > > search host dns > > domain coyote.den > > > > Can you detail these domains called host and dns? > > I keep thinking that it's some relic from libc4 or libc5, before the > adoption of nsswitch.conf, but I am at a loss how to find > documentation that old to prove or disprove my guess. > > The nearest I could find is <http://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag/node82.html> > which describes an /etc/host.conf file that contains "order bind > hosts". I can't tell whether Gene's setup is an erroneous take on this > obsolete configuration file (somehow merging it into resolv.conf), or > something else entirely. Perhaps something even older, or something > from a non-Linux system.
I started with Red Hat 5.0, in the late '90's. And it looks like stretch may have deprecated the executable, locate can only find the .conf files, one in /etc, and one in /usr/share/libc-bin/nsswitch.conf. Maybe its something libc-bin uses? They are identical FWTW. Cheers Greg, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
