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From: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
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On Thursday 04 June 2009 20:59:57 Dave wrote:
> Hi,
> 	Thanks everyone for the information on this. I'm not running
> anything ipv6, i'd like to turn this off completely. The dns for my network
> unfortunately due to lack of computers is being provided by a 2wire gateway
> 2701, if anyone has any information on this thing's dhcp or dns i'd love to
> hear it, googling hasn't shown me how to change the internal domain name.
> Thanks.

If you know your ISP's nameservers, simply run a local resolver and tell 
dhclient to prepend or override the nameserver obtained from dhcp.
There's quite a few how-to's on the web on this topic.

Suggested local reading: 
man dhclient.conf
man rc.conf
/etc/defaults/rc.conf - named_ settings
/etc/namedb/named.conf

-- 
Mel