From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 16 21: 9:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (ipl-229-010.npt-sdsl.stargate.net [208.223.229.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F326514A07; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 21:09:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us) Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (shazam.internal [192.168.5.3]) by w2xo.pgh.pa.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA13327; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 05:09:21 GMT Message-ID: <3859C580.A4B9FAD8@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:09:20 -0500 From: Jim Durham Organization: dis- X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd hackers Subject: Re: Resolv.conf question References: <199912170143.RAA03627@mass.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith wrote: > > > Something in the daily scripts seemed to eliminate the > > first line, containing the local nameserver. I say this > > because the file date was 1:59am, the time that periodic/daily > > runs. I put it back every day, and the next day, it was gone again. > > > > I hunted quite a while in the scripts, but couldn't > > figure out what was doing this? > > Nothing should. > > > Just for the sake of my curiosity, what was modifiying > > resolv.conf? Is this a security feature? > > No idea. Are you running DHCP there by any chance? > Nope. There's an NT box on the LAN doing DHCP. The 3.3 Box is a local server on a disconnected LAN talking to a "remote" server that spools mail, which is grabbed by fetchmail. We are running PPP on-demand to the external server via a dial-up to an ISP. However, PPP only holds the line up from 8am-8pm and this is happening at 1:59am, coinciding with the "periodic daily" scripts from crontab. Seemed wierd to me.. - Jim Durham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message