From owner-freebsd-security Thu Nov 18 8: 9: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from inbox.org (inbox.org [216.22.145.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14FC815433 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 08:08:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsd@a.servers.aozilla.com) Received: from localhost (bsd@localhost) by inbox.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA01553 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 11:08:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 11:08:53 -0500 (EST) From: "Mr. K." X-Sender: bsd@inbox.org To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Systalk] localhost.org (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org # man resolv.conf 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(3); 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. so, since my hostname is inbox.org, the default domain is org. it seems very unlikely that anyone would ever want this for a two part hostname. shouldn't this be disabled as a default for those names (but still work for those who explicitly add it)? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message