On 4/10/23 18:04, zithro wrote:
On 10 Apr 2023 22:58, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 10:53:41PM +0200, zithro wrote:
Why can't you follow others advice, hell, if you don't trust us, even
the
perfectly correct and up-to-date manpages ?
After reading the posts of others, I'm more and more thinking your
simply a
troll (or a RedHat fanatic wasting Debian helpers time for no reason)
...
My take is that he's confused, not trolling. I've never seen any
evidence
that he's intentionally making false statements. He seems to believe
what
he's saying.
Well, I don't know what's the worst ...
And honestly, when you're genuinely confused, you believe and follow the
advice of the ones who know ...
The weird and frustrating part is that nothing we do or offer seems to
break through the confusion.
So, I got curious about his claim : "that change to resolv.conf adding
the search line [search hosts, nameserver] has been required since red
hat 5.0 in 1998".
(The bracket addition is mine)
I'm not using RHEl-based systems a lot so I may be wrong, and there's
not a lot of material left from the 1998 web, but the resolv.conf file
*looks* identical in RHEL-based systems, at least nowadays.
I quickly browsed a few RH help pages about resolv.conf, but couldn't
find his claim.
I then searched for "search hosts, nameserver" on search engines (-with-
the quotes, to only get full-match results).
Either I get no results or ... wait for it ... it *ONLY* gives me
results where Gene posted !
So Gene, can you tell us where you read this ?
In a man page from a good 20 years ago. I still have a copy of that
original redhat 5.0 on a shelf above me, but not a floppy drive to read
those disks with.
If you didn't read it somewhere, are you using it because :
- it always has been in your config files, which you created at a time
you didn't really know what you were doing,
- or you followed advice from someone who claimed he knew,
- or it was in a wrongly pre-configured system and you blindly copied
the stanza ?
That I can't recall for sure, my wet ram is 88 years old, but I had to
use it yet for a quint of buster installs when updating my machines to
buster a month or so after it was released. 4 of them are still in daily
use here. And I just discovered after this round re-started, that its no
longer required for armbian's bullseye. So as an experiment, I
re-installed avahi & cups-browsed on these bullseye machines which I had
removed. And on reboot, I still had a local network on all bullseye's.
Blew me away.
Take care & stay well.
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, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/>
