DNS Domain in DHCP question?

[Mark Andrews]

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.
 
> 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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