On Wednesday 25 October 2017 11:05:28 Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 07:35:35AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 October 2017 23:46:47 Felix Miata wrote: > > > Gene Heskett composed on 2017-10-24 22:52 (UTC-0400): > > > >> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 20:31:05 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >>>and made immutable. Particularly is the fact that > > > >>> /etc/resolv.conf isn't a link to something else but contains: > > > >>> > > > >>>nameserver 192.168.XX.1 > > > >>>search host dns > > > >>>domain coyote.den > > > > > > ... > > > > Whereas my theory has always been WRT the search line, that it > > should first search the /etc/hosts file for a name match, and > > failing that, query my router, which is running dd-wrt which means > > its running dnsmasq. > > In order to do that, you want this: > > in /etc/nsswitch.conf: > ... > hosts: files dns > ... > > Which is the standard for Debian and basically all other Linux > distros that I know about. > > That tells the DNS resolver to look at /etc/hosts first, and > then make a DNS query if /etc/hosts does not have an answer. > > Note that isn't in resolv.conf, it's in nsswitch.conf. > > -dsr-
And mine gives more choices yet. :) hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
