On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 02:20:38AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 25 August 2017 01:27:47 David Wright wrote: > > > > But what has that to do with having the proper entry's > > > in /etc/resolv.conf? Whose active lines are: > > > > > > nameserver 192.168.71.1 > > > search host,dns > > > > I can't parse ↑ this line. Are you sure your resolver can? > > Why does it contain a comma? Are "host" and "dns" domain names? > > From man resolv.conf: > > > search Search list for host-name lookup. > The search list is normally determined from the local > domain name; by default, it contains only the local domain > name. This may be changed by listing the desired domain search > path following the search keyword with spaces or > tabs separating the names. > > So I have it wrong with my comma, but its been working for about 20 years > that way. I'll fix it for S&G. To continue
That search line makes the default domains to be searched ".host" and ".dns". Is that what you want? I suspect what you actually want is in /etc/nsswitch.conf: hosts: files dns which means "look at /etc/hosts first, then check DNS". This is the default, by the way, and has been for at least a decade. The most likely override to it is using an alternate name resolution protocol like Samba's winbind or such. -dsr-
