On Tuesday 26 September 2017 15:47:57 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 03:19:51PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > domain coyote.den > > > > This I think is a leftover from when it was the place to put your > > domainname, but now we've had the domainname utility to set that for > > what, a decade?, and I could probably remove that line. Belt and > > suspenders I guess. :) > > The domainname(1) command is for NIS, not DNS. > > The "domain" directive in resolv.conf is deprecated (maybe?) in favor > of the "search" list, but the latter is a list of domain names, not > places to consult. (If "domain" is given and "search" is not, then > "search" uses the name that is in "domain" as its only entry.) > > The list of places to consult for name resolution is in > /etc/nsswitch.conf in recent releases, and was in /etc/host.conf a > very long time ago.
Sounds like I must have missed that memo. Lets see what it says: For starters, 13 keywords, yikes. Even so, it could be called a bit too concise and will take some study to adequately decipher them all. But I have a new parted problem I'll post about next. Thanks Greg. Cheers, 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>
