From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 11 19:27:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bakabaka.bignet.net (bakabaka.bignet.net [64.79.64.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85C3A37B443 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 19:27:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zettel@acm.org) Received: from acm.org (host171.64-79-90.bignet.net [64.79.90.171]) by bakabaka.bignet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA26562 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 22:27:11 -0400 Message-ID: <3AD51271.25615AEB@acm.org> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 22:26:57 -0400 From: Leonard Zettel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: resolv.conf overwrite Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Following The Complete FreeBSD p 480 I created the following /etc/resolv.conf # Changed by Len Zettel 4/11/01 #----------removed------------- # search # nameserver 192.168.0.185 # ------------------------------ # ---------Added--------------- domain Oz. nameserver 204.254.120.6 # Bignet primary nameserver nameserver 204.254.120.7 # Bignet secondart nameserver #------------------------------------------------------ I was then happy as a clam at high tide at being able to ping domain names on the net. :-) This looked like PROGRESS! (One step at a time division). Then I rebooted :-( /etc/resolv.conf now contained search nameserver 192.168.0.185 Tentative conclusion: something in the boot sequence is fooling with (probably creating) /etc/resolv.conf So, what do I change to stop this? Or should I not be trying to stop it? And doing something else entirely? And where can I read about THAT? My access to the net is via DSL with a Windows machine as gateway running a package calle SyGate. (Yes, technically DUMB, DUMB, DUMB) except for one thing: it works. Even I got it working. When (not IF, optimist that I am) I get Free BSD running well under this setup we'll work on changing it. Hopefully a step at a time. Thanks for reading. -LenZ- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message