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| [9] | 1 | .TH RESOLV.CONF 5
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| 2 | .SH NAME
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| 3 | resolv.conf \- Domain Name System resolver configuration
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| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS
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| 5 | .B /etc/resolv.conf
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| 6 | .SH DESCRIPTION
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| 7 | .de SP
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| 8 | .if t .sp 0.4
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| 9 | .if n .sp
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| 10 | ..
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| 11 | The
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| 12 | .B /etc/resolv.conf
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| 13 | is used to configure how the host will use the Domain Name System to resolve
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| 14 | hostnames to IP addresses. It may contain these two lines:
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| 15 | .PP
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| 16 | .RS
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| 17 | .ta +15n
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| 18 | nameserver \fIIP-address\fP
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| 19 | .br
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| 20 | domain \fIdomain-name\fP
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| 21 | .RE
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| 22 | .PP
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| 23 | The nameserver entry tells the IP address of the host to use for DNS
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| 24 | queries. If it is set to 127.0.0.1 (which is the default) then the local
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| 25 | name daemon is used that may use the
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| 26 | .B /etc/hosts
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| 27 | database to translate host names. You normally only need a nameserver entry
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| 28 | if the name server is at the other side of a router. The default
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| 29 | .B nonamed
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| 30 | name server can't look beyond the local network.
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| 31 | .PP
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| 32 | The domain entry tells the default domain to use for unqualified hostnames.
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| 33 | This entry is usually not given in which case the domain of the local host
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| 34 | is used.
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| 35 | .PP
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| 36 | The long version of this story can be found in
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| 37 | .BR resolver (5).
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| 38 | .SH FILES
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| 39 | .TP 20n
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| 40 | /etc/resolv.conf
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| 41 | DNS resolver configuration file.
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| 42 | .SH "SEE ALSO"
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| 43 | .BR resolver (5),
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| 44 | .BR hosts (5),
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| 45 | .BR nonamed (8),
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| 46 | .BR boot (8).
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| 47 | .SH AUTHOR
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| 48 | Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
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