[ale] search domains

[James Sumners]

Which is just about as vague as `man 5 resolv.conf`.

Damon: the search domains will be automatically appended to any
"computers" you try to lookup. So let's say you enter "foo" into the
address bar of a web browser. If you have "search example.com" in your
resolv.conf, then the browser will try "foo.example.com" before giving
up and showing you an error.

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 14:23, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> can be used to provide a list of alternate domain names to search for
> hostname by.
>
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Damon Chesser <dchesser at acsi2000.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> This is one of the things missing from my education, when doing
>> DNS/resolv.conf you might put in
>>
>>
>>
>> Domain foo.com
>>
>> Search foo.com
>>
>> Nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx
>>
>>
>>
>> What is “search foo.com” and what does it do?
>>
>>
>>
>> Damon Chesser
>>
>> dchesser at acsi2000.com
>>
>> damon at damtek.com
>>
>>
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