Bug#2527: `host' uses `search' in resolv.conf to determine local domain

["Owen S. Dunn" <osd1000@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Package: dnsutils
Version: 951231-1

`host' is tacking the first item in the search path in
/etc/resolv.conf onto a `single name without a trailing dot', rather
than the local domain name.

>>From the `host' manpage:

       For single names without a trailing dot, the local domain
       is automatically tacked on the end. [...]

       The actual suffix to tack on the end is usually the local
       domain as specified in the /etc/resolv.conf file, [...]

>>From my /etc/resolv.conf:

domain acad.cai.cam.ac.uk

search cam.ac.uk chu.cam.ac.uk cus.cam.ac.uk ac.uk

nameserver 131.111.131.23
nameserver 131.111.131.114
nameserver 131.111.8.42

However:

tacitus:~$ host tacitus
tacitus.cam.ac.uk does not exist (Authoritative answer)
tacitus:~$ host -l cam.ac.uk
tacitus does not exist (Authoritative answer)
Error in looking up own name
tacitus:~$

Owen
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