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- RESOLVER(5) Minix Programmer's Manual RESOLVER(5)
- NAME
- resolver - resolver configuration file
- SYNOPSIS
- /etc/resolv.conf
- DESCRIPTION
- The resolver is a set of routines in the C library (resolv(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 keywords with values
- that provide various types of resolver information.
- 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.
- The different configuration options are:
- nameserver
- Internet address (in dot notation) of a name server that the
- resolver should query. Up to MAXNS (currently 3) name servers may
- be listed, one per keyword. If there are multiple servers, the
- resolver library queries them in the order listed. If no nameserver
- 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).
- domain
- Local domain name. Most queries for names within this domain can
- use short names relative to the local domain. If no domain entry is
- present, the domain is determined from the local host name returned
- by gethostname(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.
- search
- Search list for host-name lookup. The search list is normally
- determined from the local domain name; by default, it begins with
- the local domain name, then successive parent domains that have at
- least two components in their names. This may be changed by listing
- the desired domain search path following the search 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. Note that this process may be slow and will
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- generate 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.
- The search list is currently limited to six domains with a total of
- 256 characters.
- The domain and search keywords are mutually exclusive. If more than one
- instance of these keywords is present, the last instance will override.
- The keyword and value must appear on a single line, and the keyword (e.g.
- nameserver) must start the line. The value follows the keyword,
- separated by white space.
- FILES
- /etc/resolv.conf
- SEE ALSO
- gethostbyname(3N), resolver(3), hostname(7), named(8)
- Name Server Operations Guide for BIND
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