Re: compensating for dhcp which only provides useless dns
On 2009-07-23 07:50 +0200, Paul Scott wrote:
> I have a new install of sid on a laptop with a new hard drive. The
> wireless works fine except at one location where my guess is that the
> DNS is not set up correctly. I work around this by adding useable
> nameserver addresses to /etc/resolv.conf. I don't have resolvconf
> installed but I haven't figured out how /etc/resolv.conf is being
> overwritten or where I can put the working nameserver addresses so the
> automatic detection of this particular AP will use them.
The /etc/resolv.conf file is rewritten by dhclient, you can use the
"prepend" statement in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf to supply other
nameservers, e.g.
prepend domain-name-servers 192.0.2.1,192.0.2.42;
will result in two nameserver entries in /etc/resolv.conf:
nameserver 192.0.2.1
nameserver 192.0.2.42
that are put before the entry that is obtained from the DHCP server.
Sven
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