Changing Network parameters Col 311

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth David A. Bandel:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:44:04 -0600
> Myles Green <myles-green at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> > 
> > domain $DOMAIN 
> > search $DOMAIN
> 
> for as long as I can remember, on every UNIX OS I've run (several), it
> has always been EITHER domain OR search, but NEVER both.  Anyone got
> current documentation stating differently?

>From the resolver(5) man page:

     The domain and search keywords are mutually exclusive.  If
     more  than  one instance of these keywords is present, the
     last instance wins.

I'd forgotten that the last keyword wins.

Kurt
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