From c594a728b2313a41375d8e88901e5e4c64ae1ba0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Nikola=20Forr=C3=B3?= Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2019 14:17:19 +0200 Subject: resolv.conf.5: Update information about search list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Since glibc 2.26, the number of domains in the search list is no longer limited. Reference: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=3f853f22c87f0b671c0366eb290919719fa56c0e Signed-off-by: Nikola Forró Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man5/resolv.conf.5 | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man5/resolv.conf.5 b/man5/resolv.conf.5 index 57f0a13df..c500864d1 100644 --- a/man5/resolv.conf.5 +++ b/man5/resolv.conf.5 @@ -104,8 +104,10 @@ traffic if the servers for the listed domains are not local, and that queries will time out if no server is available for one of the domains. .IP -The search list is currently limited to six domains +In glibc 2.25 and earlier, the search list is limited to six domains with a total of 256 characters. +.\" commit 3f853f22c87f0b671c0366eb290919719fa56c0e +Since glibc 2.26, the search list is unlimited. .TP \fBsortlist\fP This option allows addresses returned by -- cgit 1.2-0.3.lf.el7