[illumos-Developer] illumos 1176 (was: DHCP, DNS domains and search lists in /etc/resolv.conf)

[Gordon Ross]

>> How hard is it to write the first name as domain, and additional names
>> in search?
>
> It wouldn't be hard at all, but it would be wrong. If you wanted to do
> that correctly, you would write the first domain name as domain, and all
> domain names including the first one in search.
>
>
> Hans

Summarizing an IRC discussion today:

The ksh-specific echo | read stuff is fine.

We probably should honor an RFC 3397 "domain search" tag
if provided.  If that's not provided and the DNSdmain has spaces,
take the first element as the domain name and the whole thing
as the DNS search line.

Gordon