From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 17 2: 6: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (UCB-Async4-CRISCO.CRIS.NET [212.110.129.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81E781510B for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 02:05:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3/UCB) id MAA07270; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 12:04:13 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 12:04:13 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Jim Durham Cc: freebsd hackers Subject: Re: Resolv.conf question Message-ID: <19991217120413.D76255@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: Jim Durham , freebsd hackers References: <385993A9.55086450@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <385993A9.55086450@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>; from Jim Durham on Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 08:36:41PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 08:36:41PM -0500, Jim Durham wrote: > I posted this to -questions, but didn't really > get any answer that seemed to fit, so I thought > I would ask here. > > On a 3.3-RELEASE box, not realizing at first that > I didn't need an entry for the local nameserver, I > had it's IP in as the first line in resolv.conf, followed > by two more nameservers on the next two lines. > > 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? > > Just for the sake of my curiosity, what was modifiying > resolv.conf? Is this a security feature? > Could be ppp(8). -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message