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Date:      Thu, 28 Oct 2004 17:47:51 +0200
From:      Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de>
To:        mbr@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dhclient trashes my resolv.conf
Message-ID:  <20041028174751.37d14505.lehmann@ans-netz.de>
In-Reply-To: <20041028002251.73eae308.lehmann@ans-netz.de>
References:  <20041027224512.2e3b2ae8.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20041027204852.GY95878@horsey.gshapiro.net> <20041027230039.7a5d0150.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20041027210303.GZ95878@horsey.gshapiro.net> <20041027233309.122e4207.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20041027214224.GA60882@dragon.nuxi.com> <20041028002251.73eae308.lehmann@ans-netz.de>

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Oliver Lehmann wrote:

> I've tried supersede domain-name-servers ""; in /etc/dhclient.conf, But
> that seems to have no effect. I can't see any other way to prevent
> dhclient from touching my resolv.conf in that man page. Maybe you can
> point me?
> 
> man 8 dhclient-script says
> 
> HOOKS
>        When  it  starts,  the  client  script  first defines a shell
>        function, make_resolv_conf , which is later used to create  the 
>        /etc/resolv.conf file.    To  override  the default behaviour,
>        redefine this function in the enter hook script.
> 

Martin,

do you think, it is a good solution to overwrite the function definition
to prevent overwriting your resolv.conf? Wouldn't be a rc.conf parameter
easier for beginners to "get", and more stringent to the whole system of
configuration?
What do others think?

-- 
 Oliver Lehmann
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