/etc/resolv.conf - Number of Nameservers

[Ed Greshko]

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 */