Re: [Cfengine] Resolv oddities (cfengine 2.0.6 on HP-UX 11.0)

[Tjeerd Hes]

Fredrik Jagenheim wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 02:36:40PM +0200, Tjeerd Hes wrote:
>
> > Fredrik Jagenheim wrote:
> >
> > > Our cf.resolv looks like this (Not really, but you get the idea):
> > >
> > > 192.168.1.3
> > > 192.168.1.4
> > > "domain ourdomain.net"
> > > "search ourdomain.net thatdomain.org"
> >
> > Works as designed.
> > from a man page `man resolv.conf`  (checked solaris + fbsd);
> >
> >     The  domain and  search keywords are mutually exclusive.  If
> >     more  than  one  instance  of these keywords is present, the
> >     last instance takes precedence.
>
>
> Thanks, I had missed the part about those two being exclusive.
> However, I still don't understand how adding the 'search
> ourdomain.net' is 'working as designed' as there are already one
> extra keyword, and adding /another/ extra mutually exclusive keyword
> won't exactly help...

Correct.

> Anyway, I changed our cf.resolv to just have the 'search' part
> included. Then cfengine decided to add 'domain ourdomain.net' at the
> end of /etc/resolv.conf, something I'd think is /not/ working as
> designed, since they're supposed to be mutually exclusive...

Sorry missed that one, looks like a bug.

> So, to rephrase the question, how do I tell cfengine that I want to be
> able to search two domains when I lookup hostnames?

As workaround use 'copy' (file) instead of 'resolve' ?

Good luck,
Tjeerd.
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