From: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2021 16:12:38 +0000 (+0100) Subject: man: move motivational explanation to footnote X-Git-Tag: v248-rc3~92^2~8 X-Git-Url: http://git-history.diyao.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9273d8e6c9363f82ce4f8120879a021b0176fb30;p=systemd%2F.git man: move motivational explanation to footnote --- diff --git a/man/systemd-resolved.service.xml b/man/systemd-resolved.service.xml index 0ff2b4e855..e6bfdf938b 100644 --- a/man/systemd-resolved.service.xml +++ b/man/systemd-resolved.service.xml @@ -246,13 +246,13 @@ has failed, as absolute, while other names would be resolved in opposite order. The ndots option in /etc/resolv.conf was used to control how many dots the name needs to have to be resolved as relative first. This stub resolver does not implement - this at all: multi-label names are only resolved as FQDNs. (There are currently more than 1500 - top-level domain names defined, and new ones are added regularly, often using "attractive" names that - are also likely to be used locally. Not looking up multi-label names in this fashion avoids fragility - in both directions: a valid global name could be obscured by a local name, and resolution of a relative - local name could suddenly break when a new top-level domain is created, or when a new subdomain of a - top-level domain in registered. Resolving any given name as either relative or absolute avoids this - ambiguity.) + this at all: multi-label names are only resolved as FQDNs.There are currently more than + 1500 top-level domain names defined, and new ones are added regularly, often using "attractive" names + that are also likely to be used locally. Not looking up multi-label names in this fashion avoids + fragility in both directions: a valid global name could be obscured by a local name, and resolution of + a relative local name could suddenly break when a new top-level domain is created, or when a new + subdomain of a top-level domain in registered. Resolving any given name as either relative or absolute + avoids this ambiguity.) This resolver has a notion of the special .local domain used for MulticastDNS, and will not route queries with that suffix to unicast DNS servers unless explicitly