/etc/resolv.conf - Number of Nameservers
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Mon Mar 10 03:52:52 UTC 2008
Manish Kathuria wrote:
> What is the maximum number of nameservers mentioned in /etc/resolv.conf
> which will be queried while looking up a hostname or IP address in Fedora
> 8 ? Earlier implementations had a ceiling of 3 nameservers which could be
> queried. Has there been any increase ?
This is not from fedora...but I suspect it is quite the same....
Check "man resolv.conf" and you may see the statement "
"The maximum number of DNS servers to use is set by MAXNS (see <resolv.h> )"
and if you then look in /usr/include/resolv.h you see....
# define MAXNS 3 /* max # name servers we'll track */
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