Re: [SLUG] DNS and resolv.conf

[Ashley <heracles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ashley wrote:
> Thanks Dave,
> Did exactly that. I will restart the network and see if it works.
> Regards
> Ashley

Just to follow up, for some reason the old DNS still comes up. I seem to 
have alleviated the problem using the "prepend" option to put in my 
preferred DNSs and this seems to work fine.

Ashley


> David Gillies wrote:
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> > Ashley wrote:
> > > I have changed the resolv.conf to show the main DNSs of my provider in
> > > every place I can find but still I have to manually edit it each time I
> > > start up and several times whilst I am on line as it changes back to the
> > > address of my modem/router.
> > > Obviously there is something running that changes it back every few
> > > minutes but I can't guess what, so I have no idea how to stop it
> > > changing in Ubuntu.
> > > If anyone out there knows something about Ubuntu64 6.10, please give me
> > > a clue where to look.
> >
> > Ashley,
> >
> > In /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf, the following line:
> >
> > request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
> >         domain-name, domain-name-servers, host-name,
> >         netbios-name-servers, netbios-scope;
> >
> > You just need to remove the "domain-name-servers" bit and it should be
> > all good.
> >
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> > dave.
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