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denkmoon • today at 12:05 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_domain

Your DHCP/SLAAC RA tells clients "here is a list of search domains, when you attempt to query a bare name, also look for the name plus any suffixes listed in the search domain list". So on a system with "home.arpa" in the search domains, you can do something like 'ping myhost' and your system should attempt to resolve 'myhost.home.arpa'.


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B1FF_PSUVM • today at 1:42 AM

Thanks, appreciated. Forgot that wiki is good at this (and TV series ;-)