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Greywolf <> List: tech-userlevel Date: 01/05/2004 10:23:16 Thus
spake Greg A. Woods ("GAW> ") sometime Yesterday...  GAW> I
think the right solution for interactive applications would be
for GAW> them to use the kernel's "domainname" setting as the
default domain and GAW> for them to qualify un-qualified
hostnames themselves (and yes I know GAW> some people seem to
think this is a NIS thing, but it's not -- it's just GAW> a
string setting maintained in the kernel and it even has a very
GAW> convenient and meaningful name for this very purpose!).
The thing is that domainname was intended as a NIS thing.  I
have been in several shops which have had separate DNS and NIS
domains (mine is now one of them).  Why?  I'm not sure; I'm
currently doing it because my NIS does not need to defer to DNS
for its host lookup.  To link the two might cause some
consternation; honestly, I'm rather surprised that you are the
person to suggest this.  Regarding searchlist an