On January 9, 2015 7:22:01 PM CET, Alexander Hall <alexan...@beard.se> wrote: >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.
Bah. I have no idea how I missed that you'd already mentioned that. Nevertheless, I find it very reasonable to let dhclient handle it. > >I commonly override the search domain with ".". > >/Alexander
