3 resolv.conf \- Domain Name System resolver configuration
13 is used to configure how the host will use the Domain Name System to resolve
14 hostnames to IP addresses. It may contain these two lines:
18 nameserver \fIIP-address\fP
20 domain \fIdomain-name\fP
23 The nameserver entry tells the IP address of the host to use for DNS
24 queries. If it is set to 127.0.0.1 (which is the default) then the local
25 name daemon is used that may use the
27 database to translate host names. You normally only need a nameserver entry
28 if the name server is at the other side of a router. The default
30 name server can't look beyond the local network.
32 The domain entry tells the default domain to use for unqualified hostnames.
33 This entry is usually not given in which case the domain of the local host
36 The long version of this story can be found in
41 DNS resolver configuration file.
48 Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)