On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Adam Hardy wrote:
Jeff D on 08/08/07 00:34, wrote:
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Adam Hardy wrote:
debian@reinketelaars.nl on 06/08/07 21:04, wrote:
My server isengard runs dnsmasq to provide the dhcp clients. However
it
doesn't recognise any internal network domain name:
isengard:~# hostname
isengard
isengard:~# hostname --fqdn
hostname: Unknown host
isengard:~# nslookup gondor
Server: 194.74.65.69
Address: 194.74.65.69#53
** server can't find gondor: NXDOMAIN
I worked out the domain name should go into /etc/resolv.conf (
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NET3-4-HOWTO-5.html ) but then it seems that
this is under the control of something else.
The domain name should go into /etc/resolv.conf
You also have to assign the first nameserver to be _your_ nameserver
and not your ISP's.
# cat /etc/resolv.conf
search isengard.net
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver ...
nameserver ...
Something is rewriting my resolv.conf at least every minute. I suspected
it must be dnsmasq attempting to do the DNS but I just stopped dnsmasq,
and yet resolv.conf is still being updated. I had a look over my ps
output but dont see anything that could be controlling resolv.conf.
This is the only entry in it:
nameserver 194.74.65.69
which is the British Telecom DNS.
Do you have the resolvconf package installed?
No. That looks like a culprit, but no. Not installed.
Checking out the dhclient3 and dhclient.conf man pages, it makes no
reference to resolv.conf but it does claim to be able to do dynamic DNS
updates.
I would have to try disabling the dhclient3 NIC to test if it is this
program rewriting resolv.conf, but i have to wait until the others using
the net have finished.
How exactly would I set the domain name on the machine - the name I
thought I'd chosen when setting up the system from CD?
At the moment on this machine when I run 'hostname --domain' it returns
nothing.
to set the domain name, add it into /etc/hosts, for example:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 mybox.mynet.net mybox
in /etc/hostname :
mybox
at start up /etc/init.d/hostname.sh runs, parses these and comes up the
domain name.
to turn off dhcp provided /etc/host info, edit /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf,
there is a line that starts with request. Remove domain-name-servers from
that list and dhcp wont supply it. If you read down further, you can supply
your own through the option variables.
for more dhcpclient goodness man dhclient.conf