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. It may be known by other names in different operating systems.

Functionality

It restricts the domain when looking up an address.[1] For example, if the search domain was wikipedia.org, typing "en" in the browser will redirect the user to "en.wikipedia.org". Setting this field to ".local" allows the user to override default settings by the ISP.

References

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

See also

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