Re: why does resolv.conf change?
On 2010-03-18 18:21, Clive McBarton wrote:
Stephen Powell wrote:
What kinds of changes do you see happening and what changes are you
trying to prevent? What harm is being caused by those changes?
In other words, what is the real world problem you are trying to solve?
I carefully type a domain name and some decent nameservers into
resolv.conf.
Then all of it gets deleted and replaced by one single nameserver, which
is the router and the nameserver of my provider.
Well, yeah, that's how dial-up works!
If you have your machine configured with a static
IP address, for example, you won't need DHCP. For servers, that's the
usual way to do it. User desktop machines normally use DHCP.
I use dial-up internet. The provider gives me a (different) address each
time. Presumably that means that I must have DHCP?
That's the overwhelming likelihood.
You've still never answered why you *care* about whether resolv.conf
gets overridden on a regular basis. As long as The Internet Just
Works, why do you care what's in resolv.conf?
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