On Friday 31 July 2015 09:50:18 Bob Bernstein wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jul 2015, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > To use my fixed address methods, which are officialy
> > discouraged by the list police...
>
> And what, exactly, pray tell, do those august
> personages ("the list police") preach?
They have been drinking the koolaid and saying the network-mangler can
handle it.
The number of times it HAS handled it for me has not used up the fingers
on one hand yet. And I've been using linux since 1998.
> Something tells
> me that what you jocularly term "my fixed address
> methods" are the exact ones I have been using since lo
> those many aeons ago when I sat down to read a
> hardcopy printout of the ifconfig man page.
>
> > you will need to edit /etc/resolv.conf after nuking
> > the softlink that it is and creating a real file,
> > saying "order hosts,dns" on the first line, and the
> > address of the local dns resolver as "nameserver" on
> > the next line.
>
> Ditto above. Been doing it that way for aeons. Is
> there a new way? Changing resolv.conf to a softlink
> merits harsh punishment. Where's my PPK?
>
> AND, I am going to have to make sure that my next $100
> Staples refurb box boots one of the *bsd's! This is
> incredible!
>
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
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