On Fri 25 Aug 2017 at 09:22:56 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 02:20:38AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 25 August 2017 01:27:47 David Wright wrote: > > > > > > But what has that to do with having the proper entry's > > > > in /etc/resolv.conf? Whose active lines are: > > > > > > > > nameserver 192.168.71.1 > > > > search host,dns > > > > > > I can't parse ↑ this line. Are you sure your resolver can? > > > Why does it contain a comma? Are "host" and "dns" domain names? > > > > From man resolv.conf: > > > > > search Search list for host-name lookup. > > The search list is normally determined from the local > > domain name; by default, it contains only the local domain > > name. This may be changed by listing the desired domain > > search path following the search keyword with spaces or > > tabs separating the names. > > > > So I have it wrong with my comma, but its been working for about 20 years > > that way. I'll fix it for S&G. To continue > > That search line makes the default domains to be searched > ".host" and ".dns". Is that what you want? > > I suspect what you actually want is in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
…which is in the previous line to the quotation above, so this analogous aside has hopefully closed on a circle. > hosts: files dns > > which means "look at /etc/hosts first, then check DNS". > > This is the default, by the way, and has been for at least > a decade. The most likely override to it is using an alternate > name resolution protocol like Samba's winbind or such. …and the longer version that I quoted, hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 indicates that I have libnss-mdns installed, related to avahi, just in case someone comments. Cheers, David.