From: Nikola Forró <nforro@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2019 12:17:19 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: resolv.conf.5: Update information about search list
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X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c594a728b2313a41375d8e88901e5e4c64ae1ba0;p=thirdparty%2Fman-pages.git

resolv.conf.5: Update information about search list

Since glibc 2.26, the number of domains in the search list is
no longer limited.

Reference:
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=3f853f22c87f0b671c0366eb290919719fa56c0e

Signed-off-by: Nikola Forró <nforro@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man5/resolv.conf.5 b/man5/resolv.conf.5
index 57f0a13df0..c500864d18 100644
--- a/man5/resolv.conf.5
+++ b/man5/resolv.conf.5
@@ -104,8 +104,10 @@ traffic if the servers for the listed domains are not local,
 and that queries will time out if no server is available
 for one of the domains.
 .IP
-The search list is currently limited to six domains
+In glibc 2.25 and earlier, the search list is limited to six domains
 with a total of 256 characters.
+.\" commit 3f853f22c87f0b671c0366eb290919719fa56c0e
+Since glibc 2.26, the search list is unlimited.
 .TP
 \fBsortlist\fP
 This option allows addresses returned by