- Nico Stappenbelt reported that when processing domain and search lines in

the resolv.conf file, the first entry encountered is processed and used as
  the search list. According to the manual pages for both Linux, Solaris and
  Tru64, the last entry of either a domain or a search field is used.

ares/CHANGES

@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
   Changelog for the c-ares project
 
+* May 11
+- Nico Stappenbelt reported that when processing domain and search lines in
+  the resolv.conf file, the first entry encountered is processed and used as
+  the search list. According to the manual pages for both Linux, Solaris and
+  Tru64, the last entry of either a domain or a search field is used.
+
+  This is now adjusted in the code
+
 Version 1.2.0 (April 13, 2004)
 
 * April 2, 2004

ares/ares_init.c

@@ -437,11 +437,11 @@ DhcpNameServer
       return (errno == ENOENT) ? ARES_SUCCESS : ARES_EFILE;
     while ((status = ares__read_line(fp, &line, &linesize)) == ARES_SUCCESS)
     {
-      if ((p = try_config(line, "domain")) && channel->ndomains == -1)
+      if ((p = try_config(line, "domain")))
         status = config_domain(channel, p);
       else if ((p = try_config(line, "lookup")) && !channel->lookups)
         status = config_lookup(channel, p);
-      else if ((p = try_config(line, "search")) && channel->ndomains == -1)
+      else if ((p = try_config(line, "search")))
         status = set_search(channel, p);
       else if ((p = try_config(line, "nameserver")) && channel->nservers == -1)
         status = config_nameserver(&servers, &nservers, p);
@@ -702,6 +702,14 @@ static int set_search(ares_channel channel, const char *str)
   int n;
   const char *p, *q;
 
+  if(channel->ndomains != -1) {
+    /* if we already have some domains present, free them first */
+    for(n=0; n < channel->ndomains; n++)
+      free(channel->domains[n]);
+    free(channel->domains);
+    channel->ndomains = -1;
+  }
+
   /* Count the domains given. */
   n = 0;
   p = str;