On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 12:46:27PM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: > OK, then why is it that the nameserver 127.0.0.1 gets removed on every > reboot of the system and the nameservers of my ISP are inserted. > Actually, I never removed them, I just placed the new one ahead of them. > There is also a search entry in the file. If I remove it, it also gets > rewritten upon boot-up. Maybe I should mention that I am employing DHCP > presently to obtain a lease from my ISP. Is there something I need to > alter in order to get this to work. If I cannot be done, it is no great > lose however. I can live with the system the way it is.
dhclient doesn't know that you want to use a local cache, so it does what it does - gets resolver addresses from your ISP. Put this in your /etc/dhclient.conf: interface "hme0" { <--- Change interface name accordingly... supersede domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1; } And try again. I believe, but haven't tested it, that you can use prepend instead of supersede is you wish to keep your ISP's resolvers in case your cache fails - but don't quote me on that! ;-) As for search order, use prepend: interface "hme0" { prepend domain-name "your.domain.here"; } HTH -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \
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