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From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz>
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On 29 Jul 98, at 16:19, Doug White wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Dan Langille wrote:
> 
> > I think I am imagining things.
> > 
> > I made changes to /etc/resolv.conf last night.  Tonight, after a reboot,
> > the file seems to have reset itself to what it was yesterday.  Mind you,
> > that reboot was from a panic.  Would that account for the recent changes
> > being undone?
> 
> 1.  Forgot to save it?

Possible, but the changes were invoked within DNS.  So I'm not sure.

> 2.  Running dhcp?

Client side only.  Would this explain it?
> Don't take the disks out until you've unmounted them. :)

Yeah yeah yeah.  smartie.


BTW: You answer a great deal of messages on the list.  On behalf of the 
others, thanks.
--
Dan Langille
DVL Software Limited
http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd : my [mis]adventures

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