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RESOLV.CONF(5)                File Formats Manual               RESOLV.CONF(5)

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  unqualified
       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)

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