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          If you connect to a domain server at work with a number of other servers connected to it you would put the names of the other servers you wish to search in this field.



          The average user connecting to their ISP would leave this field blank.



          The following Ubuntu Forums post explains it in more detail






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          • Thank you Mark! That answers my question perfectly. A bit of a tooltip overhaul may do wonders for Ubuntu.

            – Alan
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            @Alan - agreed the community documentation needs work, the Ubuntu Community Documentation for Internet and Network only goes up to 7.10 and does not really clarify it's use

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          More accurately: It's a list of domains that the DNS resolver will append to a hostname when attempting to resolve it to an IP address.



          For example, let's say you manager a bunch of servers at mycompany.com (web1.mycompany.com, web2.mycompany.com, db.mycompany.com, etc), and you're tired of typing the fully-qualified domain name every time you need to ping them or SSH to them.



          You can add "mycompany.com" to the list of search domains to avoid that. Now when you ping or SSH to web1, it will try to resolve web1, fail, then try web1.mycompany.com, which will succeed.






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            If you connect to a domain server at work with a number of other servers connected to it you would put the names of the other servers you wish to search in this field.



            The average user connecting to their ISP would leave this field blank.



            The following Ubuntu Forums post explains it in more detail






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            • Thank you Mark! That answers my question perfectly. A bit of a tooltip overhaul may do wonders for Ubuntu.

              – Alan
              May 7 '11 at 3:02






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              @Alan - agreed the community documentation needs work, the Ubuntu Community Documentation for Internet and Network only goes up to 7.10 and does not really clarify it's use

              – Mark Rooney
              May 7 '11 at 3:17
















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            If you connect to a domain server at work with a number of other servers connected to it you would put the names of the other servers you wish to search in this field.



            The average user connecting to their ISP would leave this field blank.



            The following Ubuntu Forums post explains it in more detail






            share|improve this answer
























            • Thank you Mark! That answers my question perfectly. A bit of a tooltip overhaul may do wonders for Ubuntu.

              – Alan
              May 7 '11 at 3:02






            • 2





              @Alan - agreed the community documentation needs work, the Ubuntu Community Documentation for Internet and Network only goes up to 7.10 and does not really clarify it's use

              – Mark Rooney
              May 7 '11 at 3:17














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            If you connect to a domain server at work with a number of other servers connected to it you would put the names of the other servers you wish to search in this field.



            The average user connecting to their ISP would leave this field blank.



            The following Ubuntu Forums post explains it in more detail






            share|improve this answer













            If you connect to a domain server at work with a number of other servers connected to it you would put the names of the other servers you wish to search in this field.



            The average user connecting to their ISP would leave this field blank.



            The following Ubuntu Forums post explains it in more detail







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            • Thank you Mark! That answers my question perfectly. A bit of a tooltip overhaul may do wonders for Ubuntu.

              – Alan
              May 7 '11 at 3:02






            • 2





              @Alan - agreed the community documentation needs work, the Ubuntu Community Documentation for Internet and Network only goes up to 7.10 and does not really clarify it's use

              – Mark Rooney
              May 7 '11 at 3:17



















            • Thank you Mark! That answers my question perfectly. A bit of a tooltip overhaul may do wonders for Ubuntu.

              – Alan
              May 7 '11 at 3:02






            • 2





              @Alan - agreed the community documentation needs work, the Ubuntu Community Documentation for Internet and Network only goes up to 7.10 and does not really clarify it's use

              – Mark Rooney
              May 7 '11 at 3:17

















            Thank you Mark! That answers my question perfectly. A bit of a tooltip overhaul may do wonders for Ubuntu.

            – Alan
            May 7 '11 at 3:02





            Thank you Mark! That answers my question perfectly. A bit of a tooltip overhaul may do wonders for Ubuntu.

            – Alan
            May 7 '11 at 3:02




            2




            2





            @Alan - agreed the community documentation needs work, the Ubuntu Community Documentation for Internet and Network only goes up to 7.10 and does not really clarify it's use

            – Mark Rooney
            May 7 '11 at 3:17





            @Alan - agreed the community documentation needs work, the Ubuntu Community Documentation for Internet and Network only goes up to 7.10 and does not really clarify it's use

            – Mark Rooney
            May 7 '11 at 3:17













            14














            More accurately: It's a list of domains that the DNS resolver will append to a hostname when attempting to resolve it to an IP address.



            For example, let's say you manager a bunch of servers at mycompany.com (web1.mycompany.com, web2.mycompany.com, db.mycompany.com, etc), and you're tired of typing the fully-qualified domain name every time you need to ping them or SSH to them.



            You can add "mycompany.com" to the list of search domains to avoid that. Now when you ping or SSH to web1, it will try to resolve web1, fail, then try web1.mycompany.com, which will succeed.






            share|improve this answer



















            • 2





              This is the most helpful explanation on this topic on the entire internet.

              – phpguru
              Jan 19 '17 at 16:57
















            14














            More accurately: It's a list of domains that the DNS resolver will append to a hostname when attempting to resolve it to an IP address.



            For example, let's say you manager a bunch of servers at mycompany.com (web1.mycompany.com, web2.mycompany.com, db.mycompany.com, etc), and you're tired of typing the fully-qualified domain name every time you need to ping them or SSH to them.



            You can add "mycompany.com" to the list of search domains to avoid that. Now when you ping or SSH to web1, it will try to resolve web1, fail, then try web1.mycompany.com, which will succeed.






            share|improve this answer



















            • 2





              This is the most helpful explanation on this topic on the entire internet.

              – phpguru
              Jan 19 '17 at 16:57














            14












            14








            14







            More accurately: It's a list of domains that the DNS resolver will append to a hostname when attempting to resolve it to an IP address.



            For example, let's say you manager a bunch of servers at mycompany.com (web1.mycompany.com, web2.mycompany.com, db.mycompany.com, etc), and you're tired of typing the fully-qualified domain name every time you need to ping them or SSH to them.



            You can add "mycompany.com" to the list of search domains to avoid that. Now when you ping or SSH to web1, it will try to resolve web1, fail, then try web1.mycompany.com, which will succeed.






            share|improve this answer













            More accurately: It's a list of domains that the DNS resolver will append to a hostname when attempting to resolve it to an IP address.



            For example, let's say you manager a bunch of servers at mycompany.com (web1.mycompany.com, web2.mycompany.com, db.mycompany.com, etc), and you're tired of typing the fully-qualified domain name every time you need to ping them or SSH to them.



            You can add "mycompany.com" to the list of search domains to avoid that. Now when you ping or SSH to web1, it will try to resolve web1, fail, then try web1.mycompany.com, which will succeed.







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