Re: how to change default nameserver?

[Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz>]

On 11/04/23 15:17, gene heskett wrote:
> On 4/10/23 18:04, zithro wrote:

> > So, I got curious about his claim : "that change to resolv.conf adding 
> > the search line [search hosts, nameserver] has been required since red 
> > hat 5.0 in 1998".
> > (The bracket addition is mine)
> >
> > I'm not using RHEl-based systems a lot so I may be wrong, and there's 
> > not a lot of material left from the 1998 web, but the resolv.conf file 
> > *looks* identical in RHEL-based systems, at least nowadays.
> > I quickly browsed a few RH help pages about resolv.conf, but couldn't 
> > find his claim.
> >
> > I then searched for "search hosts, nameserver" on search engines 
> > (-with- the quotes, to only get full-match results).
> > Either I get no results or ... wait for it ... it *ONLY* gives me 
> > results where Gene posted !
> >
> > So Gene, can you tell us where you read this ?
>
> In a man page from a good 20 years ago. I still have a copy of that 
> original redhat 5.0 on a shelf above me, but not a floppy drive to read 
> those disks with.

Well, it's not in resolver(5) (which is for resolv.conf) on Red Hat 5.0.5.

Richard