On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:51:34AM +0000, Stuart Henderson spoke thusly:
> On 2010-11-28, Matthieu Herrb <mhe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Denny White <denny...@cableone.net> wrote:
> >=========
> >> $ cat /etc/resolv.conf
> >> nameserver 192.168.1.1
> >> nameserver 2001:470:20::2
> >> nameserver ns1.he.net
> >> nameserver ns2.he.net
> >> nameserver ns3.he.net
> >> nameserver ns4.he.net
> >> nameserver ns5.he.net
> >> nameserver 74.82.42.42
> >> lookup file bind
> >>
> >> $ cat /etc/resolv.conf.tail
> >> nameserver 2001:470:20::2
> >> nameserver ns1.he.net
> >> nameserver ns2.he.net
> >> nameserver ns3.he.net
> >> nameserver ns4.he.net
> >> nameserver ns5.he.net
> >> nameserver 74.82.42.42
> >> lookup file bind
> >
> > add:
> >
> > family inet6 inet4
> >
> > to /etc/resolv.conf (and .tail for future boots) to get the resolver
> > to return the v6 address of the remote sites first. Otherwise OpenBSD
> > will return the v4 address first.
> 
> also, putting hostnames in resolv.conf doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Agreed. That was really silly. Like I said in the original post,
I was getting desparate. Completely missed the relevant setting
in the man page. Go figure. Too much coffee, too little sleep. ;)
Thanks Stuart.
 

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