On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Ronald Khoo wrote:

> To answer Andy Doran <ad@fionn.sports.gov.uk> who wrote:
> 
> } How about an extra option for 'options' in /etc/resolv.conf that 
> } knocks the TLD lookup on the head?
> } 
> } Useful for dial-on-demand systems (as yours is).
> 
> Well, strictly speaking, it won't help at all, as most of my
> lookups succeed on the TLD lookup!  (e.g. for fionn.sports.gov.uk :-)
> One could do it just for hosts without dots, but that seems
> too much like a kludge to me.

Resolving fionn.sports.gov.uk and resolving the TLD (top level domain: uk)
are two different things. Am I misunderstanding what you said?

('Fionn' is a mythical Irish warrior. Pity it's such a cheesy machine :)

- ad