DNS: Full domain names needed!

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 04:42:13PM -0400, Kevin Darcy wrote:
> 
> To make "nslookup asterix" work, you'd need to configure your resolver
> with a default domain, which would be the name of a domain containing an
> "asterix" entry. E.g. you could put "domain idefix" or "domain
> idefix.de" in /etc/resolv.conf.
...
> > ####################
> > # /etc/resolv.conf
> > domain idefix.de de
> > search idefix.de de
> > nameserver 192.168.17.42
> > ####################

More specifically, "domain" does not take two arguments - make it
	domain idefix.de
I have heard it said that "search" is deprecated; but I find it
sometimes useful, and so may you.

OBTW - "Asterix" is a cute little cartoon barbarian.  "Asterisk" is
'*'.  ;-)

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