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Re: compensating for dhcp which only provides useless dns



Siggy Brentrup wrote:
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 08:27 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
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.
That's a good start with the drawback that these lines are prepended
even when the dhcp server provides working DNS.

As is the OP should add a script editing /etc/resolv.conf depending
on location to
  /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-{enter,exit}-hooks.d

I'll try that.  Thanks.
But IMHO it's even better to nag the server's admin for the benefit
of fellow users.

I did that as soon as I realized the problem. It's my favorite late night coffee shop.

Paul



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