Re: Support for resolv.conf search and ndots

I've removed that portion. I've also fixed a problem with NXDOMAINs
being processed incorrectly (ie, forever after the search path has
been exhausted).

Thien

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 01:21:28 +0200 (CEST), Henrik Nordstrom
<hno@squid-cache.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Thien Vu wrote:
>
> > I adapted Florin Andrei's patch for support of the search directive in
> > /etc/resolv.conf and added support for ndots resolution as well (since
> > having one and not the other can seriously break name resolution).
> >
> > I was hoping to get this integrated, because the search path stuff has
> > been put off for a long time now, and the ndots is a critical
> > component of name resolution through resolv.conf
>
> Looks interesting, but one small comment:
>
> The size check of 63 looks somewhat malplaced. This size limit applies to
> individual domain components (the word between two dots), not the whole
> (sub)domain which may be larger (up to 256 characters) as long as each
> component is not larger than 63 characters. You should be OK by simply
> dropping this part of the patch I think.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
>