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Re: compensating for dhcp which only provides useless dns



On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 22:50 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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.

In my followup to Sven I forgot to mention a third alternative:

run your own DNS cache on 127.0.0.1 setting it up to query only
known good DNS servers. /etc/resolv.conf should only contain

nameserver 127.0.0.1

let dhclientscript still fill in the domain line.

HTH
  Siggy 
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