RE: Name resolution on a dual homed host - Solved
Absolutely brilliant. On my walk this morning the clue stick struck and I
realized I probably had some control over the DHCP client. Your letter was
waiting for me when I sat down and saved me much wasted time.
Thanks for the help.
John Purser
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From: robomod@news.nic.it [mailto:robomod@news.nic.it]On Behalf Of
Stephen Patterson
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 4:44 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Name resolution on a dual homed host
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 22:20:10 +0200, John M. Purser wrote:
> I've got a Debian woody box acting as firewall for a small home network.
It
> has two ethernet cards with the internal network one being static and the
> external one configured by DHCP. I use a cable modem for internet
> connectivity. I'd like the Debian box to use the dns server it's running
> for name resolution but every time eth1 reconnects to comcast.net it
> overwrites /etc/resolv.conf with the standard nameserver addresses plus a
> search domain (attbi.com). I though about changing the permissions on
> resolv.conf or adding a post-up script to eth1 but I was wondering if
there
> was a right way to do this. Its not a big deal but it bugs me.
If you use dhclient, you can adjust the behaviour with these options
in /etc/dhclient.conf. In fact, because dhclient isn't requesting any
dns servers, I just get the local one set with the prepend option.
supersede domain-name "localdomain";
prepend domain-name-servers 192.168.1.3;
request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
domain-name, host-name;
require subnet-mask;
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