On Thu, 23 Jul 2026, Mayuresh wrote:
Back to NetBSD, see resolv.conf(5) already documents this behavior
Sorry I stated "this" poorly. It already documents the NetBSD behavior "this" thread was about.
Can you please pin point? I searched by the word IPv6 in the man page and could not find the resolution sequence (vary the IP protocol first or suffixes first).
Not about IPv6."If no domain entry is present, the domain is determined from the local host name returned by gethostname(3); the domain part is taken to be everything after the first `.'."
"The search list is normally determined from the local domain name; by default, it begins with the local domain name ..."
I notice (using tcpdump) that Linux varies IPv first and NetBSD suffix first and find the former to be relatively safer.