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What do I put in the “Search Domains” field?
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This one has always confused me. What do I put in this field?
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This one has always confused me. What do I put in this field?
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If you connect to a domain server at work with a number of other servers connected to it you would put the names of the other servers you wish to search in this field.
The average user connecting to their ISP would leave this field blank.
The following Ubuntu Forums post explains it in more detail
answered May 7 '11 at 2:59
Mark RooneyMark Rooney
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Thank you Mark! That answers my question perfectly. A bit of a tooltip overhaul may do wonders for Ubuntu.
– Alan
May 7 '11 at 3:02
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@Alan - agreed the community documentation needs work, the Ubuntu Community Documentation for Internet and Network only goes up to 7.10 and does not really clarify it's use
– Mark Rooney
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More accurately: It's a list of domains that the DNS resolver will append to a hostname when attempting to resolve it to an IP address.
For example, let's say you manager a bunch of servers at mycompany.com (web1.mycompany.com, web2.mycompany.com, db.mycompany.com, etc), and you're tired of typing the fully-qualified domain name every time you need to ping them or SSH to them.
You can add "mycompany.com" to the list of search domains to avoid that. Now when you ping or SSH to web1, it will try to resolve web1, fail, then try web1.mycompany.com, which will succeed.
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If you connect to a domain server at work with a number of other servers connected to it you would put the names of the other servers you wish to search in this field.
The average user connecting to their ISP would leave this field blank.
The following Ubuntu Forums post explains it in more detail
answered May 7 '11 at 2:59
Mark RooneyMark Rooney
5,99112957
Thank you Mark! That answers my question perfectly. A bit of a tooltip overhaul may do wonders for Ubuntu.
– Alan
May 7 '11 at 3:02
2
@Alan - agreed the community documentation needs work, the Ubuntu Community Documentation for Internet and Network only goes up to 7.10 and does not really clarify it's use
– Mark Rooney
May 7 '11 at 3:17
add a comment |
If you connect to a domain server at work with a number of other servers connected to it you would put the names of the other servers you wish to search in this field.
The average user connecting to their ISP would leave this field blank.
The following Ubuntu Forums post explains it in more detail
answered May 7 '11 at 2:59
Mark RooneyMark Rooney
5,99112957
Thank you Mark! That answers my question perfectly. A bit of a tooltip overhaul may do wonders for Ubuntu.
– Alan
May 7 '11 at 3:02
2
@Alan - agreed the community documentation needs work, the Ubuntu Community Documentation for Internet and Network only goes up to 7.10 and does not really clarify it's use
– Mark Rooney
May 7 '11 at 3:17
add a comment |
If you connect to a domain server at work with a number of other servers connected to it you would put the names of the other servers you wish to search in this field.
The average user connecting to their ISP would leave this field blank.
The following Ubuntu Forums post explains it in more detail
answered May 7 '11 at 2:59
Mark RooneyMark Rooney
5,99112957
If you connect to a domain server at work with a number of other servers connected to it you would put the names of the other servers you wish to search in this field.
The average user connecting to their ISP would leave this field blank.
The following Ubuntu Forums post explains it in more detail
answered May 7 '11 at 2:59
Mark RooneyMark Rooney
5,99112957
answered May 7 '11 at 2:59
Mark RooneyMark Rooney
5,99112957
answered May 7 '11 at 2:59
Mark RooneyMark Rooney
5,99112957
answered May 7 '11 at 2:59
Mark RooneyMark Rooney
5,99112957
5,99112957
Thank you Mark! That answers my question perfectly. A bit of a tooltip overhaul may do wonders for Ubuntu.
– Alan
May 7 '11 at 3:02
2
@Alan - agreed the community documentation needs work, the Ubuntu Community Documentation for Internet and Network only goes up to 7.10 and does not really clarify it's use
– Mark Rooney
May 7 '11 at 3:17
add a comment |
Thank you Mark! That answers my question perfectly. A bit of a tooltip overhaul may do wonders for Ubuntu.
– Alan
May 7 '11 at 3:02
2
@Alan - agreed the community documentation needs work, the Ubuntu Community Documentation for Internet and Network only goes up to 7.10 and does not really clarify it's use
– Mark Rooney
May 7 '11 at 3:17
Thank you Mark! That answers my question perfectly. A bit of a tooltip overhaul may do wonders for Ubuntu.
– Alan
May 7 '11 at 3:02
Thank you Mark! That answers my question perfectly. A bit of a tooltip overhaul may do wonders for Ubuntu.
– Alan
May 7 '11 at 3:02
2
2
@Alan - agreed the community documentation needs work, the Ubuntu Community Documentation for Internet and Network only goes up to 7.10 and does not really clarify it's use
– Mark Rooney
May 7 '11 at 3:17
@Alan - agreed the community documentation needs work, the Ubuntu Community Documentation for Internet and Network only goes up to 7.10 and does not really clarify it's use
– Mark Rooney
May 7 '11 at 3:17
add a comment |
More accurately: It's a list of domains that the DNS resolver will append to a hostname when attempting to resolve it to an IP address.
For example, let's say you manager a bunch of servers at mycompany.com (web1.mycompany.com, web2.mycompany.com, db.mycompany.com, etc), and you're tired of typing the fully-qualified domain name every time you need to ping them or SSH to them.
You can add "mycompany.com" to the list of search domains to avoid that. Now when you ping or SSH to web1, it will try to resolve web1, fail, then try web1.mycompany.com, which will succeed.
answered Jan 15 '15 at 15:44
odigityodigity
25638
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This is the most helpful explanation on this topic on the entire internet.
– phpguru
Jan 19 '17 at 16:57
add a comment |
More accurately: It's a list of domains that the DNS resolver will append to a hostname when attempting to resolve it to an IP address.
For example, let's say you manager a bunch of servers at mycompany.com (web1.mycompany.com, web2.mycompany.com, db.mycompany.com, etc), and you're tired of typing the fully-qualified domain name every time you need to ping them or SSH to them.
You can add "mycompany.com" to the list of search domains to avoid that. Now when you ping or SSH to web1, it will try to resolve web1, fail, then try web1.mycompany.com, which will succeed.
answered Jan 15 '15 at 15:44
odigityodigity
25638
2
This is the most helpful explanation on this topic on the entire internet.
– phpguru
Jan 19 '17 at 16:57
add a comment |
More accurately: It's a list of domains that the DNS resolver will append to a hostname when attempting to resolve it to an IP address.
For example, let's say you manager a bunch of servers at mycompany.com (web1.mycompany.com, web2.mycompany.com, db.mycompany.com, etc), and you're tired of typing the fully-qualified domain name every time you need to ping them or SSH to them.
You can add "mycompany.com" to the list of search domains to avoid that. Now when you ping or SSH to web1, it will try to resolve web1, fail, then try web1.mycompany.com, which will succeed.
answered Jan 15 '15 at 15:44
odigityodigity
25638
More accurately: It's a list of domains that the DNS resolver will append to a hostname when attempting to resolve it to an IP address.
For example, let's say you manager a bunch of servers at mycompany.com (web1.mycompany.com, web2.mycompany.com, db.mycompany.com, etc), and you're tired of typing the fully-qualified domain name every time you need to ping them or SSH to them.
You can add "mycompany.com" to the list of search domains to avoid that. Now when you ping or SSH to web1, it will try to resolve web1, fail, then try web1.mycompany.com, which will succeed.
answered Jan 15 '15 at 15:44
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25638
answered Jan 15 '15 at 15:44
odigityodigity
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answered Jan 15 '15 at 15:44
odigityodigity
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answered Jan 15 '15 at 15:44
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Jan 19 '17 at 16:57
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This is the most helpful explanation on this topic on the entire internet.
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This is the most helpful explanation on this topic on the entire internet.
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