>I don't want my domain name, hostname etc. overwritten by DHCP. > >I haven't put up even a basic firewall ruleset yet, and haven't enabled IPFW >yet, it's a clean, new (well not exactly new) machine without anything >important on it yet. > >Can you help prevent a tragedy? > >Thanks in advance! here's what i do, i let the machine boot up with dhcp for an IP/address from the cable people, then in my rc.d/rc.local i copy /etc/resolv.conf.dynip (which is pointing at itself on eth1 an internal IP, statically defined as primary dns) over top of the /etc/resolv.conf set by the cable guys dhcpd. once that's happened I restart the named daemon from the rc.local. and,walla i've got my domain name, my hostname and my dns spitting out whatever IP's i've got setup for my internal network. it's a kludge, but it works just great. it came to me during a near haemorrhage episode. enjoy jw --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For daily digest info, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
