On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 06:18:36PM +1100, John Ferlito wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 02:23:50PM +1100, Rebecca Richards wrote:
> > Hi Martin,
> >
> > For instance, I have the following:
> >
> > domain home.becsta.net
> > search vic.bigpond.net.au
> >
> That's not quite right. From man resolv.conf
>
> The domain and search keywords are mutually exclusive. If
> more than one instance of these keywords is present, the
> last instance wins.
>
>
> so if you do ping server it will only try
> server.vic.bigpond.net.au will never try server.home.becsta.net
> It's probably working for you fine because of the entries in your hosts
> files.
>
Right. So I put on a mates cable box in /etc/resolv.conf (after fatally breaking the
DHCP script by trying to stop it overwriting /etc/resolv.conf (and even using chattr
:-))
search matrixownsyou.myip.org nsw.bigpond.net.au
nameserver 127.0.0.1
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