Domain search path (was Re: Fedora 7)

[Chris Tyler]

On Fri, 2007-01-05 Ola Thoresen wrote:
> Chris Tyler wrote:
> > 
> >       echo 'export LOCALDOMAIN="dom1.com dom2.org"' >>/etc/profile
>
> Wow! Sounds perfect!
> Except it does not seem to work with most apps?
> 
> $ export LOCALDOMAIN="nytt.no"
> $ echo $LOCALDOMAIN
> nytt.no
> $ host poseidon
> Host poseidon not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
> $ ping poseidon
> ping: unknown host poseidon

I use $LOCALDOMAIN most often with tools such as ssh, telnet, netcat,
Firefox, and traceroute, and it works fine. Odd that ping, host, and
their friends don't acknowledge it, maybe the _res.options values used
by those programs is the problem? (Or is there more than one resolver
library?)

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