Summary domain

From: Hiu-Man Cheung (cheung@cs.umn.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 23 1999 - 22:07:54 CST

Below is the best reply.
The end dot in resolv.conf domainname caused SUNWorkshop site license to
fail. Thanks to everyone replied 

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Hiu-Man Cheung                                            612.624.8862
University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute    (Cell)612.386.7036       
for Digital Simulation and  Advanced Computation    cheung@cs.umn.edu

I'm probably late with my reply, but I haven't seen a summary.  If you are
ONLY using nis, then resolv.conf shouldn't be doing anything.

If you are using DNS, the domain with the trailing dot (.) specifically
states that there is nothing past the edu portion of the domain.  I don't
think that having or not having the trailing dot will affect you in the
resolv.conf.  The place it may affect you would be in your actual domain
files on the DNS server, or when doing an nslookup.

in the resolv.conf file, the directive "domain" states what domain your
machine is considered to be primarily a member of.  If there is no search
directive in the resolv.conf file, then name lookups without a trailing dot
will first attempt to append the domain to the name to be looked up and
then perform the lookup.  It will then attempt some other combinations of
the domain.

For more information, I would definitely recommend the "DNS and BIND" book
from O'reilly and Associates (the publisher).  I think it's in its 3rd
edition.  Excellent DNS reference.

Jay

>Hi,
>
>I'm using NIS
>What's the difference between these two lines in resolv.conf
>
>domain cs.umn.edu.
>domain cs.umn.edu
>

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