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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers resolv.conf Post 302331063 by Neo on Friday 3rd of July 2009 09:22:48 AM
Old 07-03-2009
Hi Dan,

Glad you found your answer.

One of the issues with any forum, especially a large one, is how to prioritize the questions. Most forums, like this one, are "flat" in a sense that all questions are treated equally, so to speak.

Because of this, I am considering to create a new forum called something like "The Bits High Priority Forum" or something like that. In that forum,
posters who have urgent questions can spend their Bits to get higher priority from any volunteer, like me, who might look in that forum first.

For example, if we charged 20,000 Bits for a high priority question, this means that new members who simply register and login for the first time, will not have enough Bits to post in the high priority forum. On the other hand, member who make contributions will have plenty of Bits, like all the active members who have been around for a long time.

In addition, of course, new member could get more Bits by winning them in the casino, a lottery, or having other members give Bits to them for great replies etc. In addition, of course, a new member, in theory, could contact another member and make a real cash offer for their Bits.

As an example, you could ask, via a PM, "Hey Man, could you sell me 1,000,000 Bits for $5 dollars. I will PayPal the money to you, OK?"

I don't think I would sell 1,000,000 of my Bits for $5, but someone else might! Or, you could offer more.... this creates a market, of course, based on the buyer and the seller.

The point being that active members who contribute are rewarded by the Bits activity system. In addition, there would be a way to get higher priority for important questions.

These are my thoughts, and hopefully, something like what I have described would solve the problem of certain people who have been around for some time, not getting the priority they desire.

Cheers.
 

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LEARN ABOUT BSD

resolver

RESOLVER(5)							File Formats Manual						       RESOLVER(5)

NAME

       resolver - resolver configuration file

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/resolv.conf

DESCRIPTION

       The  resolver  configuration  file contains information that is read by the resolver routines the first time they are invoked by a process.
       The file is designed to be human readable and contains a list of name-value pairs that provide various types of resolver information.

       On a normally configured system this file should not be necessary.  The only name server to be queried will be on the local machine and the
       domain name is retrieved from the system.

       The different configuration options are:

       nameserver
	      followed by the Internet address (in dot notation) of a name server that the resolver should query.  At least one name server should
	      be listed.  Up to MAXNS (currently 3) name servers may be listed, in that case the resolver library queries tries them in the  order
	      listed.	If  no nameserver entries are present, the default is to use the name server on the local machine.  (The algorithm used is
	      to try a name server, and if the query times out, try the next, until out of name servers, then repeat trying all the  name  servers
	      until a maximum number of retries are made).

       domain followed	by  a domain name, that is the default domain to append to names that do not have a dot in them.  If no domain entries are
	      present, the domain returned by gethostname(2) is used (everything after the first `.').	Finally, if the host name does not contain
	      a domain part, the root domain is assumed.

       The  name  value  pair must appear on a single line, and the keyword (e.g. nameserver) must start the line.  The value follows the keyword,
       separated by white space.

FILES

       /etc/resolv.conf

SEE ALSO

       gethostbyname(3N), resolver(3), named(8)
       Name Server Operations Guide for BIND

4th Berkeley Distribution					September 14, 1987						       RESOLVER(5)
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