Local domain appended to 2 domains only

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9nio88$dq8 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Cricket Liu <cricket at menandmice.com> wrote:
>> 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.

Relatively recent?  I thought most resolvers were fixed at least 5 years
ago.  So unless someone is still running SunOS 4.x because they couldn't
deal with converting to Solaris 2.x, I would expect them to have a resolver
that does this properly.

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