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DNS Search domains

I have found that the search domain only is finding 1 level of subdomains. Anything more then that, and it can't find a host.


Example:

I have example.com in my search domain path.


if I try and ping


test it pings test.example.com and works fine.


if i try and ping test.this


it gets a host can't be found.


In previous version of OSX, and standard linux, pinging test.this would result in pinging test.this.example.com.



I am hoping there is a setting somehwere that can just be changed to see it act more like the prevous versions of OSX.


Any ideas?

Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Jul 20, 2011 3:32 PM

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Nov 28, 2011 11:51 AM in response to kkircher

Check out http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4845


which has:


Using search domains with more than two labels


You may configure a search domain with more than two labels such as "corp.example.com" in the Network pane of System Preferences. This search domain, and only this search domain, will be appended to simple hostnames in applications that connect to resources on the network. For example, if you type "www" into Safari's address field, it will try to connect to www.corp.example.com (only). In previous versions of Mac OS X, Safari would try to connect to www.corp.example.com, and if that did not work, it would try to connect to www.example.com.


To replicate the behavior of previous Mac OS X versions in OS X Lion, you can specify more than one search domain, such as "corp.example.com" and "example.com".

DNS Search domains

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