From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 30 5:47:40 2002 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 B7A6137B400 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 05:47:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (oe14.pav2.hotmail.com [64.4.36.118]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 382AF43E42 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 05:47:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unixtools@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 05:47:37 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [202.41.224.36] From: "Unix Tools" To: "FreeBSD Questions" , "Lord Raiden" References: <4.2.0.58.20020826141711.0094fc70@192.168.0.25> Subject: Re: Changing default DNS server Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 06:32:22 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Aug 2002 12:47:37.0108 (UTC) FILETIME=[6B1F3540:01C25023] 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 check the /etc/resolv.conf for the nameservers list ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lord Raiden" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 11:51 PM Subject: Changing default DNS server > Hi all. I've got one of my boxes that's using a DNS server that's having > some real issues right now and It's causing me no end to grief. I'd like > to tell it to use a different set of DNS servers without having to reboot > it as I can't reboot it for the time being due to a number of processes I > have running on it. The DNS is aquired by the machine via DHCP when it > first boots. > > So basically what I want to do is: > > 1. Change the current primary and secondary DNS servers loaded into > memory which were originally taken from DHCP while the server is running. > 2. Specify manual DNS entries in the system for those machines unable to > pull DNS settings from DHCP. > > Thanks all. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message