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?) -- Chris Tyler http://chris.tylers.info -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
