That should do it, thank you very much! Alex
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Steven Collins <spc.for....@gmail.com> wrote: > I really thought I'd posted this before, but can't find it with > Google. I run the attached script, which is mostly a gawk program, > from my .bashrc and .profile on my laptop. This ensures that my > resolv.conf gets configured correctly for the current network > connection each time I start a new interactive shell. This is really > more frequently than it probably needs to be, but it gets the job done > for me and I've never really noticed a significant delay from it. > > Steven > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 01:49, Alex Leigh <> wrote: >> >> It's not possible to do it with a Windows service that updates >> resolv.conf whenever a new DHCP lease is obtained, or, if that's not >> possible, a cronjob that periodically polls for new nameservers >> obtained from DHCP? I don't know enough about Windows to know if >> there's an API for accessing the required information. >> >> Alex >> >> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Huang Bambo <> wrote: >> > It's not possible. >> > DHCP is handled by Windows, not by cygwin. >> > >> > 2010/6/27 Alex Leigh <> >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> Apologies if this has been asked before, but is it possible to have >> >> /etc/resolv.conf in Cygwin to be automatically updated with >> >> nameservers obtained using DHCP from Windows networking? Thanks. >> >> >> >> Alex >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >> >> FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ >> >> Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >> >> Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >> >> >> > >> > -- >> > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >> > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ >> > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >> > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >> > >> > >> >> -- >> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >> FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ >> Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >> Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >> > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
