Bug#268343: No improvement

Thomas Hood Thomas Hood <jdthood@aglu.demon.nl>, 268343@bugs.debian.org
Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:18:56 +0200


network-admin 1.2.0-2 still does not understand the "search" option.

Before:

# cat resolv.conf
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 130.161.180.1
nameserver 130.161.180.65
search decis.nl

I start network-admin.  It does not show 'decis.nl' as the domain name.
It is totally unclear whether entering something in network-admin's
"General|Domain name" field will change the NIS domain name
in /proc/sys/kernel/domainname or the DNS domain name specified
in /etc/resolv.conf.

I enter 'yyy.org' in the "Domain name" field and click OK.  The program
pauses and then exits.

After:

# cat resolv.conf
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 130.161.180.1
nameserver 130.161.180.65
search decis.nl
domain yyy.org


OK, so now I know that "General|Domain name" changes the DNS domain
name, not the NIS domain name.  However it still does so without
understanding that there was already a "search" option in resolv.conf
which has now been rendered inoperative.

-- 
Thomas Hood <jdthood@aglu.demon.nl>