NAME
resolv.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 contain 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 unqual-
ified hostnames. 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 ALSO
resolver(5), hosts(5), nonamed(8), boot(8).
AUTHOR
Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)