On 9/26/05, Steven Stromer <filter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am pretty comfortable with network concepts, but I've always had this
> hole in my understanding, and want to fill it. In Fedora's Network
> Configuration control panel, there is a field for DNS search path. I
> believe that it defaults to localhost.localdomain, which doesn't seem
> very useful unless running a DNS server on the same box. I understand
> that some ISPs provide the information for this field, but many hosts
> don't offer this info. Is this field the fqdn of the router physically
> provided by the ISP, another router further into the ISP's network, or
> what? Can it be either a fqdn or an ip? I've scoured the net for this,
> and am coming up with nothing.
>
> Thanks for any direction!
>
> Steven Stromer
>
>
This list is for config tool development. Ask on fedora-list.
>From what I know, however, search path is often assigned with DHCP.
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