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   Message 12,729 of 14,669   
   Glen Herrmannsfeldt to Jorgen Grahn   
   Re: hostname vs hostname.local   
   19 Feb 09 14:09:54   
   
   From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
      
   Jorgen Grahn wrote:   
   (snip)   
      
   > Assuming MacOS works like a normal Unix, you might edit   
   > /etc/resolv.conf to say "whenever someone on this machine just says a   
   > host name, he means .. Quoting the BSD man   
   > page resolv.conf(5):   
      
   for most systems now, it comes through DHCP from the DHCP   
   server settings.  If you configure the DHCP client you can sometimes   
   ask it not to overwrite resolv.conf, otherwise it will do just that.   
      
   -- glen   
      
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