Re: with DHCP, forcing a DNS address at your local computer?

["Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de>]

Hi Randy,
> Aside: I am having an intermittent problem with my network--it is possible
> it is related to the Verizon nameservers.  If switching to the Earthlink
> nameservers doesn't solve the problem I will start another thread
> explaining the problem (and what I've done so far to attempt to solve it).

if I did you understand, you want to get an IP address by DHCP, but do not 
want to change dns? Then the entry in /etc/network/interfaces is correct.

If you want to get changed it by DHCP, install the package resolveconf, then 
you get a sysmlink in /etc/resolfconf to a file, which is always overwritten by 
DHCP-server.

You can also create a staticfile /etc/resolve.conf, where you can write your 
nameservers in. This file will never be overwritten.

Did this help? If not, feeel free to ask more.

Best regards

Hans