On 2014-12-09, Joshua Smith <juice...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does ndots:0 in your resolv.conf not achieve what you want?
That's about the reverse of what's wanted, ndots sets the number of dots when it should always do an absolute query and avoid using search domains. Ted is asking for a way to never do an absolute query for names without a dot. I see where he's coming from but the problem runs deeper, as people who use host.prod.example.org and access it as "host.prod" via "search example.org" will have already discovered. At this point I think we need to just consider search domains as broken by IANA and stop using them. But hey, at least we can now have domains like http://thatsnumber.wang/ which totally makes up for breaking dns, right?
