Sebastien Roy wrote: > Manoj Joseph wrote: >> I do not use nis. But the problem is that "dns" is not listed in >> /etc/nsswitch.conf. > > There you go, that explains it. > >> When I boot without enabling pcn0 (on vmware) and then enable it after >> boot, this is what I see: >> >> -bash-3.2# cat /etc/nsswitch.conf | egrep "^hosts|^ipnodes" >> hosts: files >> ipnodes: files >> > ... >> So, that begs the question, why does "ifconfig pcn0 dhcp start" not add >> dns to nsswitch.conf? Is this a but or is it working as designed? > > That's as designed. The ifconfig command simply configures IP > interfaces. It doesn't configure naming and other high-level services.
Maybe, that was a stupid question. ifconfig just doesn't. :) On linux, "ifup <interface>" is all that I (have to) do, and everything is automatically setup. Perhaps that behavior is what I was hoping for. Thanks for the help! Cheers Manoj _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
