From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Apr 26 14:36:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA18751 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 14:06:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA17956; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 14:00:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 14:00:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804262100.OAA17956@hub.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs From: Studded Subject: Re: conf/6410: /etc/hosts search field gets wiped out periodically Reply-To: Studded Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR conf/6410; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Studded To: dannyman@arh0300.urh.uiuc.edu Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FREEBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conf/6410: /etc/hosts search field gets wiped out periodically Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 13:22:57 -0700 dannyman wrote: > > >Number: 6410 > Every time I edit /etc/resolv.conf and modify the search entry, after some > time what I entered gets wiped out; Are you by any chance running DHCP? My DHCP server sends me information that the client uses to update /etc/resolv.conf. Doug PS, someone might want to change the summary for this PR to reflect resolv.conf instead of /etc/hosts. -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message