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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1986 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)resolver.5  1.6 (Berkeley) 9/14/87
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH RESOLVER 5 "September 14, 1987"
        !             8: .UC 4
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: resolver \- resolver configuration file
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: /etc/resolv.conf
        !            13: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            14: .LP
        !            15: The resolver configuration file contains information that is read
        !            16: by the resolver routines the first time they are invoked by a process.
        !            17: The file is designed to be human readable and contains a list of
        !            18: name-value pairs that provide various types of resolver information.
        !            19: .LP
        !            20: On a normally configured system this file should not be necessary.
        !            21: The only name server to be queried will be on the local machine and 
        !            22: the domain name is retrieved from the system.
        !            23: .LP
        !            24: The different configuration options are:
        !            25: .TP
        !            26: \fBnameserver\fP
        !            27: followed by the Internet address (in dot notation) of a name server
        !            28: that the resolver should query.  At least one name server should be
        !            29: listed.  Up to MAXNS (currently 3) name servers may be listed, in that
        !            30: case the resolver library queries tries them in the order listed.
        !            31: If no \fBnameserver\fP entries are present,
        !            32: the default is to use the name server on the local machine.
        !            33: (The algorithm used is to try a name server, and if the query times out,
        !            34: try the next, until out of name servers,
        !            35: then repeat trying all the name servers
        !            36: until a maximum number of retries are made).
        !            37: .TP
        !            38: \fBdomain\fP
        !            39: followed by a domain name, that is
        !            40: the default domain to append to names that do not have a dot in them.
        !            41: If no \fBdomain\fP entries are present, the domain returned by
        !            42: \fIgethostname\fP\|(2) is used (everything after the first `.').
        !            43: Finally, if the host name does not contain a domain part, the root
        !            44: domain is assumed.
        !            45: .LP
        !            46: The name value pair must appear on a single line, and the keyword
        !            47: (e.g. \fBnameserver\fP) must start the line.  The value follows
        !            48: the keyword, separated by white space.
        !            49: .SH FILES
        !            50: .I /etc/resolv.conf
        !            51: .SH SEE ALSO
        !            52: gethostbyname(3N), resolver(3), named(8)
        !            53: .br
        !            54: Name Server Operations Guide for BIND

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