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On Jan 20, 2008 4:26 PM, James Purser wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 16:23 +1100, Peter Garrett wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:54:54 +1100 > > Scott Sinclair wrote: > > > > > All it does is change the default DNS Servers.. This surely is much easier > > > to do with NetworkManager, then to go to the extents of installing bind .. > > > > Unless you stop your router's dhcp from overwriting > > (actually *replacing*) /etc/resolv.conf, it will revert. One hack is to > > add a script that stops it -see: > > Orrr, you could give your machine a static ip and be done with it. > Static IP plus custom /etc/resolv.conf seems to be the easiest way to > handle this. Unless of course bigpond is capturing all dns queries on > its networks and routing them to it's own DNS servers, in which case > nothing is going to help. > -- > James Purser It dosent seem to be givin the instructions on the telstra url earlier. The other option is if you router/adsl modem support specifying dns servers is to put into it the servers specified by that telstra page earlier or to put OpenDNS servers into the router. That way all machines connected to your router get updated DNS records. I know most Linksys units support alternative dns settings and so does my netcomm nb9w. - - -Karl -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org iD8DBQFHkt2gP8xl1UrN+1cRAkreAJ9Poq5bH50nkuXuVY6HzYqVzmk3wgCgnRPp NBeZswoBOp6TDuGAxXVXke8= =FEjL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
