Re: /etc/resolv.conf - Number of Nameservers

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Subject: Re: /etc/resolv.conf - Number of Nameservers
From: Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:52:52 +0800
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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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