RESOLV.CONF(5)RESOLV.CONF(5)NAMEresolv.conf - Domain Name System resolver configuration
SYNOPSIS
/etc/resolv.conf
DESCRIPTION
The /etc/resolv.conf is used to configure how the host will use the
Domain Name System to resolve hostnames to IP addresses. It may con‐
tain these two lines:
nameserver IP-address
domain domain-name
The nameserver entry tells the IP address of the host to use for DNS
queries. If it is set to 127.0.0.1 (which is the default) then the
local name daemon is used that may use the /etc/hosts database to
translate host names. You normally only need a nameserver entry if the
name server is at the other side of a router. The default nonamed name
server can't look beyond the local network.
The domain entry tells the default domain to use for unqualified host‐
names. This entry is usually not given in which case the domain of the
local host is used.
The long version of this story can be found in resolver(5).
FILES
/etc/resolv.conf DNS resolver configuration file.
SEE ALSOresolver(5), hosts(5), nonamed(8), boot(8).
AUTHOR
Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
RESOLV.CONF(5)
