AlwaysAppendSearchDomains
This script is intended to fix a bug in MacOSX when accessing resources (web sites, servers) with a name of the form aaa.bbb where the true hostname is in fact aaa.bbb.search.domain.
This bug means for example you can use nslookup to resolve a hostname but when you try to
ping the same hostname the Mac complains it can't resolve the addres. Very peculiar.
For details please see:
- http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/50457/nslookup-works-ping-and-ssh-dont-os-x-lion-10-7-3
- http://www.eigenspace.org/2011/07/fixing-osx-lion-dns-search-domains/
- http://www.makingitscale.com/2011/broken-search-domain-resolution-in-osx-lion.html
To apply the changes:
- Open Terminal.app
cd <directory holding the scripts>./AlwaysAppendSearchDomains.sh
To remove the changes and restore the default configuration:
- Open Terminal.app
cd <directory holding the scripts>./uninstall.sh
This script may ask for your administrator password (if you have not recently authenticated), and will update a single file (/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist) before restarting the name resolution system on your machine.
Originally written by Mike Thomson (mike@m-thomson.net)