[Python-apps-team] Bug#516466: wicd: Please allow resolv.conf search option to allow hostname lookup

[Julien Valroff]

Le samedi 21 février 2009 à 17:27 +0100, David Paleino a écrit :
> On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:09:51 +0100, Julien Valroff wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> 
> Hello again :),
> 
> > Follows up to our discussion on bug #514597:
> > it would be great to be able to specify a 'search' domain in wicd.
> > 
> > An example search entry in resolv.conf is:
> > search domain.com
> 
> Ok, what I didn't understand before, but was actually because you made wrong
> examples.
> 
> If I put "search domain.com", and then I ping "host", will it try to ping
> "host.domain.com" ? If so, then I'll start working on this ASAP. :)

Yes, that's it.

Sorry, I had taken an example with host (from the bind9-host) package -
I could also take dig)

Cheers,
Julien

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