On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 05:08:08PM +0000, Digby Tarvin wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:00:12PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:16:13PM +0000, Digby Tarvin wrote: > > > > > Any suggestions? I do like the idea of having any static nameserver > > > information in the /etc/network/interfaces file with the rest of > > > the network config, so resolvconf would be good if it worked as > > > expected.... > > > > If I understood correctly what you want you need this is > > /etc/network/interfaces: > > > > dns-nameserver 123.234.123.234 > > > > More info in /usr/share/doc/resolvconf/README.gz section 3.4 > > > > Regards, > > Andrei > > Not quite. I only want the static information in the interfaces file. > I still want the nameserver address that is supplied by DHCP to be > used. > > I do know how to hardwire a nameserver and IP address if I am not > using DHCP, but resolvconf is not really so necessary in that > situation.
I don't think the static dns server in the interfaces file will override the DHCP provided one, but I can't tell for sure. You will have to read the resolvconf docs for this. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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