On 2017-10-25, <to...@tuxteam.de> <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 09:18:36AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > [...] > >> >Might be "man resolv.conf". >> >> Can't be, that man page clearly says: >> >> search Search list for host-name lookup. > > [...] > >> It certainly doesn't say anything about putting "host" or "dns" or >> "nameserver" in that line. > > Unless your domain name is "host" or "dns", that is. But then you're > asking for it, I guess :-) > > (Don't chuckle. A company I was working at did set its internal "top > level domain" to "local". Much hilarity with zeroconf [1] ensued).
We did have the person here who host-named his machine localhost, which may blunt the hilarity somewhat as it does the surprise, the former often depending on a dose of the latter. > Cheers > - -- tomás > > -- "A simpering Bambi narcissist and a thieving, fanatical Albanian dwarf." Christopher Hitchens, commenting shortly after the nearly concurrent deaths of Lady Diana and Mother Theresa.
