On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 16:37, Rolf Pedersen wrote: > Bryan Phinney wrote: > > I am having problems getting SA to do the rbl checks. It appears that my > > /etc/resolv.conf file keeps getting built with 127.0.0.1 as the first name > > server. Other network utilities appear to be able to bypass this and try > > each nameserver before giving up but the Net::DNS perl module is not that > > smart. It tries the first nameserver, gets a SERVFAIL from localhost and > > then gives up. > > > > I have edited the offending file to move localhost back down but everytime I > > start the network, it rewrites resolv.conf and adds loopback as the first > > nameserver. > > > > Does anyone know where this behavior is coming from and how I can remove it. > > I have checked several other boxes with Mandrake 9.1 and none of them appears > > to even be getting the loopback address in the resolv.conf file but I am not > > sure how it is happening on this one box so I don't know how to repair it. > > > > Look also at /etc/ppp/resolv.conf and /etc/ppp/options. I don't know if > this relates but, when I installed djbdns, I wrote to these files, > commenting usepeerdns in /etc/ppp/options. That seemed to stop the > overwriting of resolv.conf for me but not sure if it applies to your > situation. It seems one used to be able to write resolv.conf and have > it stick ;p > >
Dirty fix.... chmod /etc/resolv.conf to 444 (read only) and see what it is that "complains" when it can't write to the file. James > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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