On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 00:44, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > Finding that dnrd site was excellent - thanks a million for that because I am > > partway into the throes of setting up a small home network
> Just having a look at it, and its argument for existance is "DNRD was > designed for home networks where you might want to dial into more than > one ISP ... . The problem with multiple dialups is that you need to > change /etc/resolv.conf for each one. With DNRD, this is no longer > necessary." > > The IP number(s) of the name server(s) is supplied by the ISP you're > dialling up to during the ppp initiation stage, /etc/resolv.conf is > modified by pppd and the interface scripts; mods are undone when the > ppp link goes down. The reason for dnrd's existance therefore doesn't > exist. > > Are you sure it actually does something useful for you which your > system doesn't do already? Thats fine for one machine dialing up the net, but the advantage is that other machines can use the dialup box as a caching DNS server - they don't need reconfiguring for each ISP's name servers. -- C. Falconer
