Re: [cobalt-users] RESOLV.CONF

[Gaurav Sabharwal <gaurav@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Serge,

Schadroff wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On my RaQ4i, content of /etc/resolv.conf file is :
> search [mydomain.com]
> nameserver 192.168.1.125
>
> On my RaQ550, it is :
> # /etc/resolv.conf
> # Auto-generated file.  Keep your customizations at the bottom of this
> file.
> search [mydomain.com]
> domain [mydomain.com]
> #END of auto-generated code.  Customize beneath this line.
>
> Does somebody knows what would be the exact content ?
> --
> Serge
man resolv.conf is your friend. But in a nutshell, it does not matters. 
Think of the /etc/resolv.conf file as the DNS settings on the Windows PC.

Below is the text for search and domain from the man page.

domain
======
Local domain name.  Most queries for names within this domain can use 
short names relative to the local domain.  If no domain entry is 
present, the domain is determined from the local host name returned by 
gethostname(2); the domain part is taken to be everything after the 
first `.'.  Finally, if the host name doesnot contain a domain part, the 
root domain is assumed.

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.  Most resolver queries will be attempted using each component 
of the search path in turn until a match is found.  Note that this 
process may be slow and will generate a lot of network traffic if the 
servers for the listed domains are not local, and that queries will time 
out if no server is available for one of the domains.

The search list is currently limited to six domains with a total of 256 
characters.

--
Regards,

Gaurav Sabharwal
http://www.inwire.net