From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 13 21:53:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Mail6.nc.rr.com (fe6.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E465937B404 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:53:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by Mail6.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Thu, 14 Mar 2002 00:53:34 -0500 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id B51ACBA05; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 00:53:27 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Server Admin , Beech Rintoul , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stop overwrite of resolv.conf Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 00:53:27 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <3.0.5.32.20020313164008.01178868@mail.sage-one.net> <3.0.5.32.20020313175953.01178868@mail.sage-one.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020313175953.01178868@mail.sage-one.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020314055327.B51ACBA05@i8k.babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 13 March 2002 06:59 pm, Server Admin wrote: | No, it's not a dhclient. I should have been more clear. | | I'm running DSL over PPPoE and get dynamic IP on a reboot/reconnect From the ppp man pages: Alternatively, if the peer supports it, ppp can be configured to ask the peer for the nameserver address(es) and to update /etc/resolv.conf automatically. Refer to the ``enable dns'' and ``resolv'' commands below for details. | and it | messes with the resolv.conf, but only part of it. Am running as caching | nameserver, and have localhost IP line in the resolv.conf as per | named.conf. So, my resolve looks like this: | | BEFORE REBOOT: | domain mydomain.net | search mydomain.net | nameserver 127.0.0.1 | nameserver xxx.xxx.xx.201 | nameserver xxx.xxx.xx.201 | | AFTER REBOOT: | domain mydomain.net | search mydomain.net | nameserver xxx.xxx.xx.201 | nameserver xxx.xxx.xx.201 | | As shown, the localhost gets removed and stops using my localhost | nameserver to first look for DNS in the local cache instead of outside. So, | after reboot, I have to overwrite the resolv.conf and reload into memory to | make it stop looking outside first for DNS. | | I think it's because of "dns enable" set in the ppp.conf. Can I comment | that out of ppp and not upset anything else...??? That would probably leave | the resolv file alone. | | At 02:05 PM 3.13.2002 -0900, Beech Rintoul wrote: | >On Wednesday 13 March 2002 01:40 pm, Server Admin wrote: | >> On reboot, my resolv.conf gets (partially) overwritten and I don't want | >> it to do that. I know there is a way to stop this. This very thing was | >> answered several months ago, but I cannot locate the answer. Please.... | >> anyone? | >> .... our website: http://www.sage-one.net/ | >> | >> Best regards, | >> | >> Jack L. Stone | >> Server Admin | > | >If this is because of DHCP issues add the following to /etc/dhclient.conf. | > | >interface "ep0" { | > supersede domain-name "yourdomain.com"; | > prepend domain-name-servers 111.222.333.444; | >} | > | >see man dhclient.conf for more details | > | >Beech | >-- | >------------------------------------------------------------------- | >Beech Rintoul - IT Manager - Instructor - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org | >/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission | >\ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 | > X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 | >/ \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- | | .... our website: http://www.sage-one.net/ | | Best regards, | | Jack L. Stone | Server Admin | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) ME --> http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message