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authorTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-05-06 16:44:43 +0000
committerTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-05-06 16:44:43 +0000
commit58f1ace6d1b27cc6e683ec40fd20e2c32c867973 (patch)
tree433cf1875ab7d79fbc7f0f30d6d6296f3ee4d05b
parente56c1491cd8b980b8f0a743b560b27fe13cbc359 (diff)
document comment characters; jmc ok
-rw-r--r--share/man/man5/resolv.conf.510
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/resolv.conf.5 b/share/man/man5/resolv.conf.5
index 891207abe89..1a7e8ffbe0a 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/resolv.conf.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/resolv.conf.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: resolv.conf.5,v 1.22 2003/08/08 09:51:54 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: resolv.conf.5,v 1.23 2004/05/06 16:44:42 deraadt Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: resolv.conf.5,v 1.7 1996/03/06 18:22:16 scottr Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1986, 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
@@ -48,6 +48,14 @@ by the resolver routines the first time they are invoked by a process.
The file is designed to be human readable and contains a list of
keywords with values that provide various types of resolver information.
.Pp
+A hash mark
+.Ql #
+or semicolon
+.Ql \;
+indicates the beginning of a comment;
+subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by
+the routines that read the file.
+.Pp
On a normally configured system this file should not be necessary.
The only name server to be queried will be on the local machine,
the domain name is determined from the host name,