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Diffstat (limited to 'contrib/bind/man/gethostbyname.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | contrib/bind/man/gethostbyname.3 | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/bind/man/gethostbyname.3 b/contrib/bind/man/gethostbyname.3 index 23432a0..034904b 100644 --- a/contrib/bind/man/gethostbyname.3 +++ b/contrib/bind/man/gethostbyname.3 @@ -103,8 +103,10 @@ The first address in h_addr_list; this is for backward compatibility. .PP When using the nameserver, .I gethostbyname -will search for the named host in the current domain and its parents -unless the name ends in a dot. +will search for the named host in each parent domain given in the ``search'' +directive of +.IR resolv.conf (5) +unless the name contains a dot. If the name contains no dot, and if the environment variable ``HOSTALAIASES'' contains the name of an alias file, the alias file will first be searched for an alias matching the input name. |
