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Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 14:54:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Dan Langille <junkmale@xtra.co.nz>
cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: changes to file are lost
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On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Dan Langille wrote:

> 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?

Yup -- the DHCP client rewrites /etc/resolv.conf with the information it
receives from the DHCP server.

> > 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.

Always glad to be of service.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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