On Tue 26 Sep 2017 at 14:59:41 (-0400), 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.
Oh yes, I think you're right. It even explains the comma that Gene had in the file until this month. I see that my own ancient host.conf still had order hosts,bind in it in 2000. The example with <space> in your reference seems to be unusual. Judging by my ancient email logs (Subject: lines only), there was a flurry around July 1998 which was about when libc6 started (hamm). Cheers, David.
