From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 31 16:32:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA25172 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 16:32:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops.xtra.co.nz (cyclops.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA25160 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 16:32:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by cyclops.xtra.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA26654; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 11:31:32 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199807312331.LAA26654@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: Doug White Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 11:31:32 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: DHCP configuration (was "changes to file are lost") Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199807310910.VAA02534@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've renamed the thread as the topic seems to have deviated slightly... On 31 Jul 98, at 13:42, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Dan Langille wrote: > > > Bummer. OK. What should I be looking at in order to automagically > > amend the contents? In brief here's what it contains followed what I > > want it to contain: > > > > search myisp.com > > nameserver 11.22.33.44 > > nameserver 11.22.33.45 > > > > ----- > > > > domain mydomain.com > > nameserver 10.0.0.1 # my min-dns server > > nameserver 11.22.33.44 > > nameserver 11.22.33.45 > > > > > > Any suggestions? > > Yes -- you can add a `prepend' statement to add that in, I think: > > prepend { > domain-name "mydomain.com"; > domain-name-servers 10.0.1.4; > } > > Add that to /etc/dhclient.conf and it should fix you up. See the > dhclient.conf manpage for details. Ahhh. Thanks. I'm finding the manual confusing and can't find any good examples. The prepend command as shown above, won't work for me, despite it matching what is said in the man pages. The error I get is "expecting identifer after option keyword". This is disconcerting not to mention disapointing. However, if I add single prepend commands to /etc/dhclient.conf before the interface "ep0" command, I do get partial success. Here's what I supply and what I get: prepend domain-name "mydomain.com"; prepend domain-name-servers 10.0.0.1; gives: search mydomain.commyisp.com nameserver 10.0.0.10 nameserver 11.22.33.44 # my ISP nameserver 11.22.33.45 # my ISP This is strange. There are references in the man pages that I can request that the DHCP server not send me certain information (i.e. the search statement), but it is not clear to me how to tell it that. How do I eliminate the search command, replace it with "domain mydomain.com" and not have it suffixed with "myisp.com". Another issue is that after initiating dhclient edo, I must manullay redo my ed1 details via ifconfig ed1 10.0.0.5 255.255.255.0. Is that to be expected? BTW: I notice that if I change the 'interface "epo" {' to be 'interface "ed0" {', things still work. It's always been ep0, and worked. I would have thought it should have to be ed0 in order to work. -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd : my [mis]adventures To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message