empty resolv.conf................

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Fri Dec 28 14:54:43 UTC 2001


In article <a0hvue$qbr at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Raheel Hussain  <mr_hussain_75020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>when i use an empty resolv.conf , and stop , and start Bind ,
>
>nothing seems to be changed,
>
>so what is really the purpose of it. if empty resolv.conf work with bind
>as the same.

The purpose of the file is to tell the resolver the address of your
nameserver.  If the file doesn't exist or doesn't have any "nameserver"
lines, it will default to using the local machine as the server.

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