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[EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes FORWARD_IPV4=false DHCP_HOSTNAME=chupacabra.monkeynoodle.org HOSTNAME=chupacabra.monkeynoodle.org DOMAINNAME=monkeynoodle.org PEERDNS=yes DHCP_TIMEOUT=5 peerdns does what you want. That dhcp timeout is a nice one too if you do a lot of moving around with your laptop :-) On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 17:17, Graeme J Hosking wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder if someone can tell me how to prevent the contents of my > /etc/resolv.conf from being re-written every time my NIC is brought > up? Or at least, allow me to keep entries in that file that I have > put there manually. > > Basically, the NIC connected to my cable modem has to use DHCP to > get its address, etc, etc. But I also run a caching DNS server on > that machine. Every time the interface is brought up it will > re-write /etc/resolv.conf with settings it gets from my ISP's DHCP > server, overwriting my entry to point to the local instance of BIND > for DNS lookups. This is frustrating, as the result is that all the > machines on my network use my self-hosted DNS server except the > machine hosting the DNS server. :) > > I've read about adding the -R switch to dhcpcd but I wondered if > there is another solution? I'm using mdk9.1. > > Many thanks, > > Graeme. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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