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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Tony Sanders <sa...@bsdi.com> on 1996/04/26 18:32:05 UTC

Re: this host crap

"Dirk.vanGulik" writes:
> the name is fully qualified and that any postfixing by the
> searchpath should not be done. Say you are in the domain
> (elec.)jrc.it and you do a telnet to elect6, then most likely
> your machine will try elect6.elec.jrc.it, elect6.jrc.it and elect6
Note that automatic recursive search is no longer supported by
modern named's for "security reasons" so it's not always quite that
bad (but yes, some people have long search paths and lots of people
are still running older named's).