[techtalk] resolv.conf issues

Vinnie surmonde at freeshell.org
Fri Sep 1 15:31:27 EST 2000


On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Olivier Tharan wrote:

> 	The search list is currently limited to six domains with a total
> 	of 256 characters.
> 
> The last line is important: check that you don't have more than 6
> domains listed and do not have more than 256 characters.

Yup, already took that into account (even tried with just two short
domains. no dice)

> If the behavior is not that expected, then it is either a bug in the man
> page or in the resolver.

yup. And since it works in Solaris, *BSD (tested all three last
night) *and* debian...

V.






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