This is necessary for me to be able to use "foo.bar" in Mac OS X, and have it resolve to "foo.bar.…

By pudge on January 2, 2015 3:13 PM | | Comments (0)

This is necessary for me to be able to use "foo.bar" in Mac OS X, and have it resolve to "foo.bar.example.com".

Add "--AlwaysAppendSearchDomains" to the ProgramArgments to discoveryd in the file "/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.discoveryd.plist".  Then "sudo launchctl unload" that file, and "sudo launchctl load" that file.  Bob's you're uncle! G+

Discoveryd Alternative to Replace mDNSResponder Argument?

This is a direct follow-on to this question. Before Yosemite, I'd add the "-AlwaysAppendSearchDomains" argument to the mDNSResponder plist file so that all local resolver lookups added the search

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