*domain-search-list*

Variable

Package: socket

The value of this variable is a list of domain names to append to a given host name by dns-lookup-hostname. Ideally this would be set by (configure-dns :auto t) but the information isn't always available. Thus a program shouldn't count on this being non-nil. A user program is permitted to set this variable.

Limitations

  1. This function does not check a local file (often /etc/hosts) for name to IP address mappings. Thus there are cases where dns-lookup-hostname won't act just like lookup-hostname.
  2. If a nameserver response is too large to fit in 512 bytes and is thus truncated, this functions does not switch from UDP to TCP and retry the query.

See dns.htm for information on the domain naming system utility in ALlegro CL and see socket.htm for general information on sockets in Allegro CL.

The documentation is described in introduction.htm and the index is in index.htm.

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Created 2000.10.5.