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- RESOLVER(5) 11, RESOLVER(5)
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- resolver - resolver configuration file
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- /etc/resolv.conf
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- DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN
- The _r_e_s_o_l_v_e_r is a set of routines in the C library
- (_r_e_s_o_l_v(3)) that provide access to the Internet Domain
- Name System. The resolver configuration file contains
- information that is read by the resolver routines the
- first time they are invoked by a process. The file is
- designed to be human readable and contains a list of key-
- words with values that provide various types of resolver
- information.
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- On a normally configured system this file should not be
- necessary. The only name server to be queried will be on
- the local machine, the domain name is determined from the
- host name, and the domain search path is constructed from
- the domain name.
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- The different configuration options are:
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- nnaammeesseerrvveerr
- Internet address (in dot notation) of a name server
- that the resolver should query. Up to MAXNS (cur-
- rently 3) name servers may be listed, one per key-
- word. If there are multiple servers, the resolver
- library queries them in the order listed. If no
- nnaammeesseerrvveerr entries are present, the default is to
- use the name server on the local machine. (The
- algorithm used is to try a name server, and if the
- query times out, try the next, until out of name
- servers, then repeat trying all the name servers
- until a maximum number of retries are made).
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- ddoommaaiinn Local domain name. Most queries for names within
- this domain can use short names relative to the
- local domain. If no ddoommaaiinn entry is present, the
- domain is determined from the local host name
- returned by _g_e_t_h_o_s_t_n_a_m_e(2); the domain part is
- taken to be everything after the first `.'.
- Finally, if the host name does not contain a domain
- part, the root domain is assumed.
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- sseeaarrcchh Search list for host-name lookup. The search list
- is normally determined from the local domain name;
- by default, it contains only the local domain name.
- This may be changed by listing the desired domain
- search path following the _s_e_a_r_c_h keyword with
- spaces or tabs separating the names. Most resolver
- queries will be attempted using each component of
- the search path in turn until a match is found.
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- Note that this process may be slow and will gener-
- ate a lot of network traffic if the servers for the
- listed domains are not local, and that queries will
- time out if no server is available for one of the
- domains.
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- The search list is currently limited to six domains
- with a total of 256 characters.
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- ssoorrttlliisstt
- Sortlist allows addresses returned by gethostbyname
- to be sorted. A sortlist is specified by IP
- address netmask pairs. The netmask is optional and
- defaults to the natural netmask of the net. The IP
- address and optional network pairs are seperated by
- slashes. Up to 10 pairs may be specified.
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- e.g. sortlist 130.155.160.0/255.255.240.0
- 130.155.0.0
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- ooppttiioonnss
- Options allows certain internal resolver variables
- to be modified. The syntax is
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- ooppttiioonnss _o_p_t_i_o_n _._._.
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- where _o_p_t_i_o_n is one of the following:
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- ddeebbuugg -- sets RES_DEBUG in _res.options.
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- nnddoottss::_n -- sets a threshold for the number of dots
- which must appear in a name given to rreess__qquueerryy (see
- _r_e_s_o_l_v_e_r(3)) before an _i_n_i_t_i_a_l _a_b_s_o_l_u_t_e _q_u_e_r_y will
- be made. The default for _n is ``1'', meaning that
- if there are any dots in a name, the name will be
- tried first as an absolute name before any _s_e_a_r_c_h
- _l_i_s_t elements are appended to it.
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- The _d_o_m_a_i_n and _s_e_a_r_c_h keywords are mutually exclusive. If
- more than one instance of these keywords is present, the
- last instance wins.
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- The _s_e_a_r_c_h keyword of a system's _r_e_s_o_l_v_._c_o_n_f file can be
- overridden on a per-process basis by setting the environ-
- ment variable ``LOCALDOMAIN'' to a space-separated list of
- search domains.
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- The _o_p_t_i_o_n_s keyword of a system's _r_e_s_o_l_v_._c_o_n_f file can be
- amended on a per-process basis by setting the environment
- variable ``RES_OPTIONS'' to a space-separated list of
- resolver options as explained above under ooppttiioonnss.
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- The keyword and value must appear on a single line, and
- the keyword (e.g. nnaammeesseerrvveerr) must start the line. The
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- SSEEEE AALLSSOO
- gethostbyname(3), resolver(3), hostname(7), named(8)
- Name Server Operations Guide for BIND
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