Re: /etc/resolv.conf keeps getting overwritten

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>]

Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> writes:

> as root, i modified the "search" line in my new box's /etc/resolv.conf
> to include a few more domains i want searched.  the changes persist
> anywhere from two minutes to two hours, but it always seems to get
> overwritten with the initial one!  this is really obnoxious, as i don't
> want to have to keep typing in full domain names.  
>
> i don't changed anything as root between relapses, so i can't figure out
> what's causing this.  any ideas?

     Are you using DHCP?  dhcp_client writes the /etc/resolv.conf when
it gets a lease from the dhcp_server.   /etc/dhclient.conf may be
configured to prepend or append additional domains to
/etc/resolv.conf.  See dhclient.conf (5).

Regards,

Bob
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