has failed, as absolute, while other names would be resolved in opposite order. The
<varname>ndots</varname> option in <filename>/etc/resolv.conf</filename> 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.)</para></listitem>
+ this at all: multi-label names are only resolved as FQDNs.<footnote><para>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.)</para></footnote></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>This resolver has a notion of the special <literal>.local</literal> domain used for
MulticastDNS, and will not route queries with that suffix to unicast DNS servers unless explicitly