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In linux, in networking, for DNS lookup on remote Name Servers, the local /etc/resolv.conf file has two main functions, 1) list the nameservers to use and 2) [...LONG PHRASE EXPLANATION HERE...]
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if given hostname with no domain (e.g. kevintest), use the search line to define what domains to add in the DNS lookup

^^^ example line in /etc/resolv.conf is: "search samsung.com", where we are saying if given just "kevintest" as hostname and you get no match from DNS query try doing "kevintest.samsung.com"


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In linux, in networking, for DNS lookup on remote Name Servers, the local /etc/resolv.conf file has two main functions, 1) list the nameservers to use and 2) [...LONG PHRASE EXPLANATION HERE...]
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In linux, in networking, for DNS lookup on remote Name Servers, the local /etc/resolv.conf file has two main functions, 1) list the nameservers to use and 2) [...LONG PHRASE EXPLANATION HERE...]
Answer

if given hostname with no domain (e.g. kevintest), use the search line to define what domains to add in the DNS lookup

^^^ example line in /etc/resolv.conf is: "search samsung.com", where we are saying if given just "kevintest" as hostname and you get no match from DNS query try doing "kevintest.samsung.com"

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27. DNS and Name Resolution
to avoid having to look them up a second time. 27.3 Configuring Your Local Machine We referred to ``configuration files'' above. These are actually the files: /etc/host.conf , /etc/hosts , and <span>/etc/resolv.conf . These are the three and only files that specify how all applications are going to look up IP numbers; and have nothing to do with the configuration files of the name server daemon its

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