Am 16.11.2012 21:45, schrieb lee: > 1.) omit the search option > 2.) put a non-existent domain into the search option > 3.) put an existing domain into the search option > > > No. 2.) isn't useful
correct > no. 3.) leads to unexpected results and > confusion[1] and therefore isn't very useful, either. It leads to > unexpected results and confusion because who says that when someone does > 'ping host' or something similar that they want to refer to any external > hosts? it is designed for people who have tehir own domain and even if it is only a named in the local network > So why specify a search option in this case? because it does not hurt much and bring you a lot of benfits in networks with a local domain, maybe i would need a new keyboard this time if i have to type "thelounge.net" in any workflow i do (rsync, ssh...) > [1]: unless it is your own domain, which doesn't apply in this case > because there is none, and there is no name resolution for hosts on > the LAN that would be part of such a domain so that 'ping host' > won't work with 'search example.com' anyway, and that makes > specifying the search option pointless because it will either not > work or only lead to confusion and unexpected results which is why > the OP might not want to use the search option with his > caching-only name server not really the only thing that happens is that any name resolution tries "nonfq.exmaple.com", i agree that it makes no sense if there is no useful domain but the benefits for cases where you have one beats the overhead easily
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