On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 20:52, James Sparenberg wrote: ... > > > > > > This is because it's really annoying to sign onto a new LAN and have X > > > > apps unable to find themselves because your search line has been > > > > overwritten by a braindead DHCP server. > > > > > > The DHCP server has no ability to write anything to your machine. The > > > DHCP client is doing it because you let it (the thing I said above will > > > make it not). > > > > Right. The DHCP server knows things that I want it to tell me: gateway > > and local DNS servers, for instance. However, that doesn't mean I want > > it to erase things that I want to keep around, especially if it doesn't > > have any better suggestions (e.g. search, which is simply erased if the > > DHCP server didn't specify anything). > > > Jack, > > Don't know if this will help but as I have proftpd and evolution as > two prime examples of the braindead X apps you spoke of I did this, in > my /etc/hosts file I changed > > 127.0.0.1 localhost (the MDK default that screws up everything *grin*) > > to > > 127.0.0.1 jamlap.linuxpda.biz jamlap > localhost.localdomain localhost > > > That way no matter what DHCP etc do my box always resolves to 127.0.0.1 > and evo and proftpd are happy as heck. > > James
Hey James, [EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost chupacabra 127.0.0.1 chupacabra.monkeynoodle.org but the resolv.conf thing would still be pretty pimpin', no? Or is that l33t :-) -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
