[ale] OT: WIN2k Networking

[Jim Popovitch]

Hi John,

In resolv.conf you can have multiple entries separated by whitespace.  So
this will work:

search microsoft.com evil.com

-Jim P.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Wells [mailto:jb at sourceillustrated.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 3:14 PM
> To: Jerry Z. Yu
> Cc: Denny Chambers; ALE
> Subject: Re: [ale] OT: WIN2k Networking
>
>
> One thing I've wondered when comparing WinX networking to Linux
> networking.
>
> With Windows, you can multiple domains (i.e., something.com,
> somethingelse.com) and it will attempt to resolve your host first by
> something.com, second by somethingelse.com.
>
> However, under linux, I've not figured a way to do this.  My
> understanding is that you can only have one "search something.com" in
> /etc/resolv.conf.  So is this multiple domain capability a Microsoft
> thing, or am I wrong about the ability to do it under Linux?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
>
> On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 15:08, Jerry Z. Yu wrote:
> > 	I don't think it is a microsoft-specific thing. It is a TCP/IP
> > thing. A specific TCP/IP setting is per network interface ( one
> interface
> > per NIC, or even multiple interface per NIC). If you have one single
> > interface defined, you can say one TCP/IP setting per system
> (as long as
> > the system you refers to have only one interface).
> > 	you can have multiple default route(default gateway). normally,
> > different metric value would be assigned to set priority to use which.
> > 	A system with multi-nic each participating different network, and
> > software to selectively forward traffic from one nic (or the network it
> > participates) to the other, you get yourself a 'router'.
> >
> >  On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Denny Chambers wrote:
> >
> > #Hi all,
> > #
> > #    I have been looking at Windows 2k TCP/IP networking (Professional
> > #Workstation in vmware), and I have notice that when you have multiple
> > #NIC cards, that it lets you setup all of the TCP/IP information
> > #seperately for each NIC. This mean I can setup an IPaddress,
> subnetmask
> > #on each card (this is normal). I can also setup not just one Default
> > #Gateway per card, but multiple Default Gateways per card (So which one
> > #is the Default?). Also each card can have it's own set of DNS servers,
> > #and it's own set of WINS servers. I am curious as to how the services
> > #(DNS, WINS, Routing) handle all of this. Normally you would only have
> > #one DefaultGateway for a system, with additional routes to other
> > #subnets. You also would have one set of DNS servers (primary,
> secondary,
> > #and tertiary), a DNS domain, and a set of search Domains.
> > #
> > #Can any Microsoft knowledgable folks shed some light on this.
> > #
> > #Thanks,
> > #Denny
> > #
> > #
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> >
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