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| From | David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Question to new network device names |
| Date | 2017-08-25 17:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <uiopb-5CW-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Fri 25 Aug 2017 at 09:22:56 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 02:20:38AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Friday 25 August 2017 01:27:47 David Wright wrote:
> >
> > > > But what has that to do with having the proper entry's
> > > > in /etc/resolv.conf? Whose active lines are:
> > > >
> > > > nameserver 192.168.71.1
> > > > search host,dns
> > >
> > > I can't parse ↑ this line. Are you sure your resolver can?
> > > Why does it contain a comma? Are "host" and "dns" domain names?
> >
> > From man resolv.conf:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > So I have it wrong with my comma, but its been working for about 20 years that way. I'll fix it for S&G. To continue
>
> That search line makes the default domains to be searched
> ".host" and ".dns". Is that what you want?
>
> I suspect what you actually want is in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
…which is in the previous line to the quotation above, so this
analogous aside has hopefully closed on a circle.
> hosts: files dns
>
> which means "look at /etc/hosts first, then check DNS".
>
> This is the default, by the way, and has been for at least
> a decade. The most likely override to it is using an alternate
> name resolution protocol like Samba's winbind or such.
…and the longer version that I quoted,
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
indicates that I have libnss-mdns installed, related to avahi,
just in case someone comments.
Cheers,
David.
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Re: Question to new network device names The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2017-08-24 16:00 +0200
Re: Question to new network device names Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-08-24 16:30 +0200
Re: Question to new network device names David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-08-24 17:50 +0200
Re: Question to new network device names The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2017-08-24 18:10 +0200
Re: Question to new network device names David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-08-24 18:50 +0200
Re: Question to new network device names Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-08-24 19:10 +0200
Re: Question to new network device names David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-08-24 20:20 +0200
Re: Question to new network device names The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2017-08-25 05:10 +0200
Re: Question to new network device names David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-08-25 07:30 +0200
Re: Question to new network device names Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-08-24 18:40 +0200
Re: Question to new network device names David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-08-24 21:30 +0200
Re: Question to new network device names Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-08-25 03:00 +0200
Re: Question to new network device names David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-08-25 04:30 +0200
Re: Question to new network device names Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-08-25 07:00 +0200
Re: Question to new network device names David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-08-25 07:30 +0200
Re: Question to new network device names Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-08-25 08:30 +0200
Re: Question to new network device names Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-08-25 15:30 +0200
Re: Question to new network device names David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-08-25 17:10 +0200
Re: Question to new network device names Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2017-08-24 17:50 +0200
Re: Question to new network device names The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2017-08-24 18:00 +0200
Re: Question to new network device names David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-08-24 19:00 +0200
Re: Question to new network device names Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-08-24 19:40 +0200
Re: Question to new network device names David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-08-24 20:00 +0200
Re: Question to new network device names David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-08-24 18:20 +0200
Re: Question to new network device names Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-08-25 14:00 +0200
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