On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 at 05:21, Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > >auto eth0 > >iface eth0 inet static > >address 192.168.NN.2/24 > >gateway 192.168.NN.1 > >dns-nameserver 192.168.NN.1 > >dns-search hosts dns > > I'm assuming that "NN" is a placeholder you've added, and not copied > verbatim from the file! > > Otherwise, that last line looks suspect. The "dns-nameserver" and > "dns-search" lines are instructions for resolvconf when setting up > networking. The "dns-search" line is meant to be passed straight > through into resolv.conf to set up a DNS search path. A valid example > from the resolvconf man page is "dns-search foo.org bar.com". What > that means is that each time you look up something that's no > fully-qualified (e.g. "foo"), this machine will be looking for > "foo.hosts" then "foo.dns". That's probably not what you > want. However, it'll be harmless if you're looking up FQDN hostnames > all the time.
There seems to be an ongoing theme here with lines that look like *search hosts dns popping up in other places in Gene's system. See: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/10/msg00857.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/10/msg00859.html Gene, the line > >dns-search hosts dns that you show above does not match anything documented by the manpages on wheezy. I checked interfaces(5) resolv.conf(5) resolvconf(8) nsswitch.conf(5) Gene, what are you trying to achieve with that line?
