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Author: Rowland Penny
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] resolv.conf
On Sun, 2022-05-08 at 10:24 -0400, william m. moss wrote:
>
> Years ago I became fed up with too many applications and
> installations
> corrupting my resolv.conf. I type in a resolv.conf using an editor.
>
> domain billshome
> search billshome
> nameserver 10.0.0.252


There is one big problem with having 'domain' and 'search' in
/etc/resolv.conf , they are mutually exclusive and the last one wins,
so that resolv.conf is actually:

search billshome
nameserver 10.0.0.252

I should also point out that a one word TLD isn't a good idea.

Rowland