Re: SV: set domain name

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 17:54 +0200, Kenneth Grande wrote:

"Andrew Critchlow" <a_critchlow@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Also, eveytime I change resolv.conf it gets changed back to something
> > else, could this be because there is a dhcp server running and the interface
> > is configured to accept dhcp?
> 

> I think he means that his resolv.conf gets overwritten by the information
> provided by the dhcp server as discussed here (with solution):
> 
> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=7239
> 

in short, he probably needs in /etc/dhclient.conf
 
    prepend domain-name-servers 197.168.some.ip;

and perhaps also 

    supersede domain-name "mydomain.tld";

they should already be in there commented out, just needs to uncomment
and put in correct data.

-- 
richard