On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Douglas Stanley <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually DNS search would be your domain that would get appended to host > names that aren't fully qualified. > > So if you put home.local in your search and then you try to ping a machine > named files, it'll try files and then files.home.local > > So in search put your local domain name, or remove it if you don't have one. > > Glad I could actually help, > Doug >
Thank you Doug, dns-search is absolutely terrific for local development! I wish that I had known about this earlier. I have configured /etc/network/interfaces and the system comes up with working networking. Thank you very much! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
