On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 05:16:16PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Digby Tarvin wrote: > > My new /etc/resolv.conf is coming up as: > > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > > This is correct if you have bind9 installed. Since this is > automatically detected then I assume that you do have bind9 installed > in order to see this result. If you remove bind9 then you would see > the DHCP nameserver addresses there. > > In which case there is one manual step to installing resolvconf. You > would need to change: > > include "/etc/bind/named.conf.options"; > > To this: > > include "/var/run/bind/named.options"; > > The resolvconf package scripts know about bind9 and if it is installed > then they assume that you want to use it and automatically set up > /var/run/bind/named.options with the nameservers offered by DHCP. > > Bob
Aha! Yes, that was it. Thanks! Just removing bind9 was enough to produce the expected behaviour. Not sure I follow the bit about the manual step required. Which file is it that is being edited? can't find anything in etc/resolvconf.. Or is that a step which would allow use of the DHCP values with bind9 still isntalled? I suppose the latter would be useful to be able to do, so that all my servers could be configured to run off a single nameserver, but be able to take over as the nameserver with a simple change of config if desired. (I am setting one up for a friend that wants to give debian a try, but is not experienced in Linux admin, so fairly simple but flexible network adaptability would be a big advantage) Regards, DigbyT -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]