On 10/24/2011 05:16, Keith Moore wrote:
> That's the point - search lists are not appropriate most of the time, and
> it's very hard for software to distinguish the cases where they are
> potentially appropriate from the cases when they're not, and it's not
> possible for software to do this in all cases.
There's been something missing from this discussion, and I finally put
my finger on it. TMK most stub resolvers have an option similar to this
one from ISC's:
ndots:n
sets a threshold for the number of dots which
must appear in a name given to res_query() (see
resolver(3)) before an initial absolute query
will be made. The default for n is “1”, mean‐
ing that if there are any dots in a name, the
name will be tried first as an absolute name
before any search list elements are appended to
it.
So it seems that this question is already a matter of local policy,
which given the number and quality of the divergent views seems
eminently reasonable. Can we move on now?
Doug
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