resolv.conf problem??

[Michael Voight]

I'm confused.  The message returned to him indicates it reached the
second domain in the search list and can't find the host, which is in
the 3rd domain in the list.

Why are you saying it uses the first domain name only?

Michael

Edwin Pijper wrote:
> 
> Bennett,
> 
> If you do the following nslookup:
> nslookup host1
> You are looking with nslookup with a relative hostname. nslookup will place
> after the relative name the first domainname of the searchlist. This will be
> fsproduce.com
> 
> nslookup is thus searching for:
> host1.fsproduce.com
> 
> Relative names doesn't have a trailing dot.
> 
> When you want to use absolute hostnames, you have to write:
> nslookup host1.training.fsproduce.com.
> (watch the trailing dot)
> 
> Edwin
> 
> >