On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 11:52:34PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting goli...@dyne.org (goli...@dyne.org): > > > Well, I picked a few names at random. netflix pops up as soon as I > > hit enter. Ditto Microsoft, outlook, Apple, twitter, instagram, > > reddit, snapchat and facebook. Redhat is in a slower lane as is the > > Linux Foundation. Even Ubuntu takes a while. But I don't get out > > much so maybe some of you know some popular destinations that I > > missed. > > I assume you mean using a Web browser. I would suggest starting your > checks using 'dig'. > > But first, a brief interlude about _where_ your nameservice is coming > from: > > If you look in /etc/resolv.conf, you'll see one or more 'nameserver' > lines. Mine on my server is like this: > > $ cat /etc/resolv.conf > search linuxmafia.com deirdre.org unixmercenary.net > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > nameserver 198.144.192.2 > nameserver 198.144.192.4 > #nameserver 198.144.195.186 > $ > > (If you are getting your IP address using DHCP, you are extremely likely > to be getting passed nameserver IP addresses with your IP address lease, > resulting in the DHCP client software overwriting /etc/resolv.conf with, > among other things, 'nameserver nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn' information.
Is there any practical way of suppressing this overwriting? Or is it essential for the usual coffee-shop mode? Is the coffee-shop's DNS service is how my http: requests are hijacked to give me an advertising and agree-to-not-show-nudity page without which they cut me off? And whih causes my browser to cut me off if it's https:? -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng