From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 16 19:21:20 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CACB16A41C for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 19:21:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C9EF43D49 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 19:21:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92C6A5DB4; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:21:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 68795-05; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:21:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-69-6.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.69.6]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 793395CF9; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:21:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42B1D1AA.9080508@mac.com> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:23:22 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Banning References: <20050616185053.GA57490@skytracker.ca> In-Reply-To: <20050616185053.GA57490@skytracker.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting DNS from DHCP IP address X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 19:21:20 -0000 David Banning wrote: > My problem is that the server I use for DNS keeps going dead. > > My ISP is most familiar with windows users who get their DNS > automatically from their connection. When my ISP gives me a good > DNS server number, it seems to go dead six months later, and I have to > call them again. Yuck. Ask them to set up DNS boxes which are not going to move. > Is there a way to get DNS automatically, say from the DHCP connection IP > address given to me? or, is there some great free DNS server that will > stay in business for some time that I can plug into my resolv.conf? DHCP will normally obtain DNS servers automaticly. It's likely that you could release and renew your lease ("dhclient -r", maybe?) and cause it to get new DNS info if the old values are no longer working. The other way would be to point to valid nameservers somewhere close, and use those. Doing a "whois yourisp.net" might give you some idea. > I am in Toronto, Canada so I guess a DNS should be in reasonable proximity. "Trawn-nah?" :-) Internet reachability matters more than physical location. -- -Chuck