On Wednesday 06 August 2014 11:51:42 Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> On 8/6/2014 11:05 AM, Markus Köberl wrote:
> > Should there not be at least one '.' after removing the one from the begin 
> > included to make sense searching for a SRV record?
> 
> DNS searchlists are used because sites often use the first component as
> an alias
> 
>   /afs/athena/...
> 
> is the same as
> 
>  /afs/athena.mit.edu/...

Just for fun I activated logging of all search queries and started some 
programs from /afs in a terminal...
Used programs: nautilus, dolphin, mc, eclipse, kile, octave, google-chrome, 
vim, apt-cache, matlab
lan is my domain in my home network therefore only search for 
afs3-vlserver._udp.*.lan

$ cat /var/log/syslog | gawk '$5~/named/ && 
match($9,/_afs3-vlserver._udp.(.*).lan/,var) {print var[1]}' | sort -u
*.bbx
beamer.cls
*.bib
bootstrap
bzr
*.cbx
*.cls
directory
dropbox
*.dtx
en
en_US
finish
git
HA-prosper.sty
hg
hidden
hotspot_compiler
hotspotrc
*.ins
krcdirs
*.latex
latex.fmt
*.lbx
libX11.so
libX11.so.6
libX11.so.6.la
libX11.so.6.so
libX11.so.la
libX11.so.so
*.ltx
matlab7rc.sh
*.mp
objects
octaverc
org.eclipse.platform
osgi.properties
PKG_ADD
profileRegistry
prosper.cls
scrartcl.cls
*.sty
svn
*.tex
Trash
Trash-1000



I am surprised by the queries for the top level domains of Saint Helena (.sh), 
Somalia (.so) and Laos (.la). Also I did not think that the list will be that 
long.
I know normally you would not start all this programs for the directory /afs. 
But I am sure that I already have often started mc form /afs and all this 
libX11 entries are from mc. I just was interested in the outcome and as 
expected some of the programs where unusable especially eclipse.

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