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RESOLVER(5)		    BSD Programmer's Manual		   RESOLVER(5)

NAME
     resolver - resolver configuration file

SYNOPSIS
     /etc/resolv.conf

DESCRIPTION
     The resolver is a set of routines in the C library (resolve(3))  that
     provide access to the Internet Domain Name System.	 The resolver configu-
     ration file contains information that is read by the resolver routines
     the first time they are invoked by a process.  The file is designed to be
     human readable and contains a list of keywords with values that provide
     various types of resolver information.

     On a normally configured system, this file should not be necessary.  The
     only name server to be queried will be on the local machine, the domain
     name is determined from the host name, and the domain search path is con-
     structed from the domain name.

     The different configuration options are:

     nameserver
	      Internet address (in dot notation) of a name server that the
	      resolver should query.  Up to MAXNS (currently 3) name servers
	      may be listed, one per keyword.  If there are multiple servers,
	      the resolver library queries them in the order listed.  If no
	      nameserver entries are present, the default is to use the name
	      server on the local machine.  (The algorithm used is to try a
	      name server, and if the query times out, try the next, until out
	      of name servers, then repeat trying all the name servers until a
	      maximum number of retries are made).

     domain   Local domain name.  Most queries for names within this domain
	      can use short names relative to the local domain.	 If no domain
	      entry is present, the domain is determined from the local host
	      name returned by gethostname(2);	the domain part is taken to be
	      everything after the first `.'. Finally, if the host name does
	      not contain a domain part, the root domain is assumed.

     search   Search list for host-name lookup.	 The search list is normally
	      determined from the local domain name; by default, it contains
	      only the local domain name.  This may be changed by listing the
	      desired domain search path following the search keyword with
	      spaces or tabs separating the names.  Most resolver queries will
	      be attempted using each component of the search path in turn un-
	      til a match is found.  Note that this process may be slow and
	      will generate a lot of network traffic if the servers for the
	      listed domains are not local, and that queries will time out if
	      no server is available for one of the domains.

	      The search list is currently limited to six domains with a total
	      of 256 characters.

     sortlist
	      Allows addresses returned by gethostbyname to be sorted.	A
	      sortlist is specified by IP address netmask pairs. The netmask
	      is optional and defaults to the natural netmask of the net. The
	      IP address and optional network pairs are separated by slashes.
	      Up to 10 pairs may be specified.	For example:

		    sortlist 130.155.160.0/255.255.240.0 130.155.0.0

     options  Allows certain internal resolver variables to be modified.  The
	      syntax is
		    options option ...
	      where option is one of the following:

	      debug	sets RES_DEBUG in _res.options .

	      ndots:n	sets a threshold for the number of dots which must ap-
			pear in a name given to res_query() (see resolver(3))
			before an initial absolute query will be made.	The
			default for n is ``1'', meaning that if there are any
			dots in a name, the name will be tried first as an ab-
			solute name before any search list elements are ap-
			pended to it.

     The domain and search keywords are mutually exclusive.  If more than one
     instance of these keywords is present, the last instance wins.

     The search keyword of a system's resolv.conf file can be overridden on a
     per-process basis by setting the environment variable ``LOCALDOMAIN'' to
     a space-separated list of search domains.

     The options keyword of a system's resolv.conf file can be amended on a
     per-process basis by setting the environment variable ``RES_OPTIONS to a
     space-separated list of'' resolver options as explained above under
     options.

     The keyword and value must appear on a single line, and the keyword
     (e.g., nameserver) must start the line.  The value follows the keyword,
     separated by white space.

FILES
     /etc/resolv.conf

SEE ALSO
     gethostbyname(3),	hostname(7),  named(8),	 resolver(3),  resolver(5).
     ``Name Server Operations Guide for BIND''

4th Berkeley Distribution      November 11, 1993			     2
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