Search domain

Search domain is a network setting in various operating systems, which is located under the DNS tab in Mac OS X, next to DNS server settings. A similar setting in Microsoft Windows is the Connection-specific DNS Suffix.

Functionality

When looking up a bare name in DNS, the network stack will add the search domains to it to form fully qualified domain names, and look up those as well.[1] For example, if the search domain was wikipedia.org, typing "en" in the browser will direct the user to "en.wikipedia.org". Some ISPs add their own search domains via DHCP settings, similar to how they add DNS servers and other networking information; if this is undesired, the user can change this setting to ".local".

References

  1. ↑ Editing DNS and search domain settings. Apple.com

See also

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