Hi Vaibhav,

Please try to wrap lines around 70 chars...

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 18:24, vaibhav samant wrote:

Hi All,

This sure is a too fundamental a question, and I could not get an understandable answer, hence I am seeking help here.

man resolv.conf

What is the meaning of "search foo.com" & "domain foo.com" in resolv.conf

from 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 does not 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.

resolv.conf contains a list of NS <as provided by ISPs> which will do domain to IP lookup... so then what will searched on foo.com ??

Diff. betwee search foo.com & domains foo.com

Trying to set my fundas correct... No flames pls.

Hope the above will help correcting ur fun-das ;-)

Thank you. Vai

With regards,