Local domain appended to 2 domains only

[Cricket Liu]

> Except that the search list is only supposed to be appended to qualified
> names if lookups for the name as given fail, and both of the names he
> mentioned exist.

That's actually a relatively recent optimization.  There are
plenty of resolvers out there (e.g., any based on BIND
4.8.3) that will apply the search list first and try the name
as-is only if those lookups fail.

cricket

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