On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:59:52 -0000, Sad Clouds <cryintotheblue...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:16:04 -0000, <casper....@sun.com> wrote: > >> >> >>> I just realised something, 'domainname' returns localnet.net, maybe this >>> is what's appending .net to non-existent domain names. But then this >>> doesn't explain why on occasions typing 'www.google.com' or any other >>> valid name, takes web pages to other web servers?? >>> >> >> That could just be a fluke of the ISP webserver (not responding quickly >> enough). >> >> Add a "search" line to resolv.conf and that should fix it (as long as it >> is valid and doesn't contain "net") >> >> Casper >> > > OK, thanks for your help, it all makes sense now. I guess this is > something to watch out for in the future when setting up resolver config
> files. Perhaps this undesirable behaviour should be avoided by making DHCP add a 'search' line to resolv.conf if that disables the default resolver behaviour. I've been bitten by this when using .org local domains, because of the "com.org" domain wildcard. -Albert _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
