[illumos-Developer] bug #1176, Was: DHCP, DNS domains and search lists in /etc/resolv.conf

[Garrett D'Amore]

Seems ok, but what if there was already a domain entry?

  -- Garrett D'Amore

On Jul 2, 2011, at 8:05 AM, Hans Rosenfeld <rosenfeld at grumpf.hope-2000.org> wrote:

> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:11:24PM +0100, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
>>> I just hacked together a quick fix which should give some saner
>>> behaviour. If only one DNS domain name is provided, a domain statement
>>> will be created in /etc/resolv.conf, otherwise a search statement with
>>> all domains will be used.
>>> 
>> 
>> With current resolver versions, I don't think there's any difference
>> between a domain statement, and a search statement with just one
>> entry, so you can probably simply always use search regardless of
>> the number of entries.
> 
> You're right. I checked the resolver code to verify that search and
> domain really are the same. The only difference is that search allows
> specifying multiple domain names.
> 
> I opened bug #1176 for this, with a patch attached to fix this:
>    https://www.illumos.org/issues/1176
> 
> The patch so trivial that I don't think a webrev is necessary.
> 
> 
> Hans
> 
> 
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