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resolv.conf & dhcpc
Name: slip Date: August 16, 2002 at 22:28:52 Pacific
Comment:
Running Redhat 7.2, using dhcpc, but I want to be able to stop dhcp from overwriting the /etc/resolv.conf file - can someone point me in the right direction?
Name: dfx Date: August 17, 2002 at 12:53:51 Pacific
Reply:
There's gotta be an option to your dhcp client. Check the client's man page, then modify whatever script starts the client. I don't know details, as they're redhat specific. Try grep'ing around a bit, in /etc or so.
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Response Number 2
Name: hrungner Date: August 20, 2002 at 06:44:33 Pacific
Summary: Im trying to set the nameservers in my resolv.conf file. It works, until I reboot, then the file reverts back to its original contents (not the nameservers that I had set). Can somebody shed some li...
Summary: In dhclient.conf, I specified that I require the DNS to be returned by server...but dhclient does not update resolv.conf...and hence my computer doesn't know where to look for DNS...help??? ...
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