In that case, here's what appears in my dhcpd.conf file:
option domain-name-servers ip.of.dns.server1, ip.of.dns.server2, ip.of.dns.server3;
option domain-name "domainname.here";
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> Mike Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >In the resolv.conf file, you should have a line, for each domain you want
> >to search, like this:
> >
> >domain domainname.here
>
> I guess I didn't make myself quite clear. The dhcp server at work tells
> my laptop what to put on the "search" line of my resolv.conf. So after
> booting at work, resolv.conf contains
>
> search domain1.work domain2.work domain3.work
> nameserver www.www.www.www
> nameserver www.www.www.www
>
> (where www.www.www.www are nameservers at work). Whatever was in resolv.conf
> before is overwritten.
>
> When I get home and boot, I'd like my home dhcp server to tell the laptop
> to search some other domains, e.g.,
>
> search localdomain domain1.work domain2.fun
> nameserver hhh.hhh.hhh.hhh
> nameserver hhh.hhh.hhh.hhh
>
> (where hhh.hhh.hhh.hhh are nameservers at home). I'd rather not have to
> edit resolv.conf by hand all the time, because it just gets overwritten
> when I get to work. But I can't figure out how to get my dhcpd to feed
> the additional domains to my laptop's dhcp client. I can get it to feed
> the nameservers and localdomain (using 'option domain-name "localdomain"),
> but no documentation that I've found tells me how to feed domain1.work and
> domain2.fun.
>
> Hope that makes my question clearer. Thanks.
>
>
> >On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> >
> >> I know how to get dhcpd to tell a client what DNS servers to use, but
> >> is there any way to have it tell a client which domains to search?
> >>
> >> I have a laptop that I move between two nets (home and work). The
> >> dhcp server at work sets the search parameter in resolv.conf to search
> >> a few different domains, but I can only find examples in the man page
> >> and HOWTO for setting mine at home to search my local domain, not
> >> others.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
>
> Matthew Saltzman
>
> Clemson University Math Sciences
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
>
>
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