On January 9, 2015 6:31:13 PM CET, Libertas <liber...@mykolab.com> wrote: >I'm relatively new to OpenBSD, so please correct any mistakes below. > >As you may know, resolv.conf.tail is appended to resolv.conf. This is >convenient because the last 'search' and 'domain' keywords listed are >used. > >However, nameservers are queried in the order they are listed. This >means (if I understand correctly) that if DHCP adds a nameserver to >your >resolv.conf, it will supersede anything you include in >resolv.conf.tail. >Wanting to specify the nameserver is common, because many of us are >otherwise sending all of our DNS queries to lovely companies like >Comcast and Verizon. > >Nameserver overrides be done with dhclient.conf, but it seems more >clear >and Unixy to just have a resolv.conf.head counterpart to >resolv.conf.tail. It already exists in a certain other Unix-like >operating system of great popularity. > >Is this a good idea? If so, I can try writing a patch.
Configure your dhclient.conf with an appropriate supersede directive instead. I commonly override the search domain with ".". /Alexander
