Hugh McIntyre wrote:
> Prashant Poman wrote:
>
>> What is DNS search list?How to decide what should be there?
>>
>
> To add to the info the previous commenters supplied:
>
> You can have a series of domain names to use for lookups. For example,
> some bits of Sun might use "sfbay.sun.com sun.com", meaning to look for
> host.sfbay.sun.com, and then host.sun.com if the first lookup fails.
> Here at home I use i.mcintyreweb.com (for hosts inside NAT) and then
> mcintyreweb.com (for some other non-NAT hosts).
>
> This is not at all common though. Unless you have a very unusual setup,
> you probably only want a single domain, if that.
>
>
Though when your domains are related like that, it's easier to just use
the 'domain' keyword:
domain sfbay.sun.com
or
domain i.mcintyreweb.com
Because those will cause dns to try the listed domain, and then
repeatedly remove the leftmost subdomain, and retry until there are only
2 parts left. For example:
domain a.b.c.d.foo.com
will search for 'host' in this order:
host.a.b.c.d.foo.com
host.b.c.d.foo.com
host.c.d.foo.com
host.d.foo.com
host.foo.com
'search' is useful when your domains to search aren't related at all,
like a.b.foo.com, and d.e.bar.org
-Kyle
> Hugh.
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