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Special Forums IP Networking DNS and hostname resolution Post 302958483 by Ultrix on Thursday 22nd of October 2015 02:17:19 PM
Old 10-22-2015
Okay, so there are many hosts for the domain youtube.com. I understand somewhat better now. How does DNS figure out which host to use after it narrows down the domain?
 

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DEFAULTDOMAIN(5)					     Linux Programmer's Manual						  DEFAULTDOMAIN(5)

NAME
defaultdomain - file which contains the NIS/YP domain name DESCRIPTION
/etc/defaultdomain is used by the boot scripts to set the NIS/YP domain name for a system as returned by the getdomainname(2) function. The file contains one line with the name of the domain. Unlike DNS hostnames and domain names, the NIS domain name is case-sensitive! The NIS domain name must not be the same as the DNS domain name, but for some services like NIS+ it should be the same. Even if the domain name is often called NIS/YP domain name, it is also used from other protocols, not only NIS/YP. FILES
/etc/defaultdomain /etc/init.d/boot.localnet SEE ALSO
domainname(1), init.d(7), init(8), nisdomainname(1), ypdomainname(1), ypbind(8), ypserv(8), ypwhich(1) COPYRIGHT
2002 SuSE Linux AG Nuernberg, Germany. SuSE Linux 2002-01-16 DEFAULTDOMAIN(5)
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