On Sun, 14 Oct 2018 08:23:09 -0400
Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 02:45:07AM -0500, golinux@??? wrote:
> ...
> >
> > And OT do I even need avahi installed at all?
>
> What is it needed for?

I do not really know, if you have DNS set up correctly, it isn't
required and guess who wrote it ?

>
> >
> > OK. I am a complete idiot and ignored the dot in the filename so
> > didn't even see the resolv.conf file. This is what's in it:
> >
> > domain austin.rr.com
>
> Is this the fully qualified domain name for the machine this file
> resides in, or the domain name that something has to be prefixed to
> to get that fqdn?
>
> > search austin.rr.com
>
> Is this what gets prefixed to every non-qualified domain name in the
> search attempt so as to allow abbreviated short names?

It is the dns domain to search for the domain records and you do not
need both, in fact, which ever is second will be used, so for most
people, you only need the 'search' line.

> Is it possibe to just say
>     search .
> to disallow abbreviated names?

Not from my experience.

Rowland