On Sunday 22 June 2003 10:07, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Mix Sella wrote: > >Again. There are precisely two places that deal with resolv.conf: > > > >1) Your dhcpcd that periodically renews leases. Yes, it's stupid. As I > > told before, I use -R command line option to prevent dhcpcd from > > overwriting /etc/resolv.conf > > The problem is that I'm not using dhcpcd. I'm using dhcp-client > (dhclient). It does not appear to have such an option. I'll migrate to > dhcpcd and see whether that helps.
Duh, sucks. Well, I use Gentoo now. Comes pre-loaded with right choices :) > > >2) pppd's ip-up and ip-down *or* pppd itself. See "usepeerdns" options of > > pppd and distro-specific script variables. > > Yes, but we actually WANT them to overwrite resolv.conf (maybe adding > loopback also, under some circumstances). To my experience with our sweetheart ISPs probably the best god damn thing one could come up with is to put the ISP's DNS servers to resolv.conf, add one backup address (I use NV's 194.90.1.5) and leave it alone. ISPs are known to produce... interesting results with PPP from time to time. > > >> Shachar > > Shachar -- Mix Sella (well, not really but hey) This mail was checked for viruses by Romat email server ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
