Interesting. At the very least then the man page is inconsistent since >From man resolv.conf, search option:
Resolver queries having fewer than ndots dots (default is 1) in them will be attempted using each component of the search path in turn until a match is found. However, I believe the subsequent query with the search-list appended is simply bad no matter whether it corresponds to the man page or not. The problem is, that the second lookup may actually return a result that is bad (namely when one of the searched domains has a wildcard) and that then gets cached. When I connect to a VPN later, the first entry isn't even tried again since we hold a cached result. As far as I can tell, the ndots option is the resolvers way of figuring out whether a name is absolute or relative given that host names don't usually have the trailing period to indicate that they are FQDNs. So, I think, it should EITHER use the search list or not depending on ndots. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1674273 Title: Resolver ignores ndots option To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1674273/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
