On 11/08/10 00:18, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
[pi.shawcable.net] It's your ISP's search domain.
OK, but if a system has an address for a working nameserver,
what is the value or significance of the search domain?
I think it uses this to turn an unqualified name in to a qualified one
so if (in the case above) you searched for xxx then it would search for
xxx.pi.shawcable.net
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