Re: Fedora-config-list Digest, Vol 19, Issue 4

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-tools-list/2005-September/msg00001=
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http://www.google.com/search?q=3Ddns+search+path&start=3D0&start=3D0&ie=3D=
utf-8&oe=3Dutf-8&client=3Dfirefox-a&rls=3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official

that should do the trick!

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> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:01:57 -0400
> From: Steven Stromer <[email protected]>
> Subject: What is the 'DNS search path'?
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> I am pretty comfortable with network concepts, but I've always had this
> hole in my understanding, and want to fill it. In Fedora's Network
> Configuration control panel, there is a field for DNS search path. I
> believe that it defaults to localhost.localdomain, which doesn't seem
> very useful unless running a DNS server on the same box. I understand
> that some ISPs provide the information for this field, but many hosts
> don't offer this info. Is this field the fqdn of the router physically
> provided by the ISP, another router further into the ISP's network, or
> what? Can it be either a fqdn or an ip? I've scoured the net for this,
> and am coming up with nothing.
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> Thanks for any direction!
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> Steven Stromer
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