DNS Domain in DHCP question?
Kyle McDonald
KMcDonald at Egenera.COM
Mon Oct 6 23:14:04 UTC 2008
Mark Andrews wrote:
> In message <48EA5489.4040802 at Egenera.COM>, Kyle McDonald writes:
>
>> I'll admit I'm playing catchup here.
>>
>>
>> I actually liked the fact that the 'domain' directive in the resolv.conf
>> used search parent domains automatically. (aside: Any pointers to the
>> discussions around the logic of turning that behavior off? I'm curious
>> to learn :) )
>>
>
> RFC 1535.
>
Thanks mark. I figured it had something to do with security.
-Kyle
>
>
>> It seems now that there isn't any point in using 'domain' at all ever,
>> so I'm not surprised that the DHCP client is building a resolv.conf with
>> 'search' and the domain name it receives in the DHCP offer.
>>
>> I can't seem to get DHCP to supply both foo.bar.com and bar.com, so my
>> real question is, What do other people do to solve, or work around this
>> problem??
>>
>> -Kyle
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